Algeria since 1989: Between Terror and DemocracyAlgeria's democratic experiment is seminal in post-Cold War history. The first Muslim nation to attempt the transition from an authoritarian system to democratic pluralism, this North African country became a test case for reform in Africa, the Arab world and beyond. Yet when the country looked certain to become the world's first elected Islamic republic, there was a military coup and the democratic process was brought sharply to a halt. Islamists declared jihad on the state and hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in the ensuing decade of state repression. Le Sueur shows that Algeria is at the very heart of contemporary debates about Islam and secular democracy, arguing that the stability of Algeria is crucial for the security of the wider Middle East. Algeria Since 1989 is a lively and essential examination of how the fate of one country is entwined with much greater global issues. |
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... CDs highly critical of both Islamists and the state. He was assassinated on June 25, 1998, and the GIA later claimed responsibility for his killing. Abassi Madani (1931–): A veteran of the war of liberation, The principals | xxiii.
... CDs highly critical of both Islamists and the state. He was assassinated on June 25, 1998, and the GIA later claimed responsibility for his killing. Abassi Madani (1931–): A veteran of the war of liberation, The principals | xxiii.
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Each opposition party argued that it best represented the very idea of Algeria itself and claimed to hold the unique solution to Algeria's woes. To be sure, the ruling elite had given their challengers ample evidence that a new idea of ...
Each opposition party argued that it best represented the very idea of Algeria itself and claimed to hold the unique solution to Algeria's woes. To be sure, the ruling elite had given their challengers ample evidence that a new idea of ...
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To be sure, the military was, as it claimed, responding to the threatening declarations of the Front Islamique du Salut (FIS) leaders – especially the hard-line Salafist politician, Ali Belhadj, arrested along with Abassi Madani in May ...
To be sure, the military was, as it claimed, responding to the threatening declarations of the Front Islamique du Salut (FIS) leaders – especially the hard-line Salafist politician, Ali Belhadj, arrested along with Abassi Madani in May ...
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By 1993, a new kind of cultural war began in earnest, claiming the lives of hundreds of prominent intellectuals and forcing tens of thousands of Algeria's intelligentsia into exile throughout France, Europe, and North America.
By 1993, a new kind of cultural war began in earnest, claiming the lives of hundreds of prominent intellectuals and forcing tens of thousands of Algeria's intelligentsia into exile throughout France, Europe, and North America.
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which did little to abate the intensity of a conflict that would fester for years and which would eventually lead to other disputes between the two countries, most notably the conflict over the Spanish Sahara after Morocco claimed it in ...
which did little to abate the intensity of a conflict that would fester for years and which would eventually lead to other disputes between the two countries, most notably the conflict over the Spanish Sahara after Morocco claimed it in ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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2 The road to reform | 31 |
generals and presidents in a time of terror | 53 |
civil society peace and sidelining generals | 74 |
5 Energy and the economy of terror | 98 |
local and global jihadis | 122 |
from the GSPC to AQMI | 143 |
Algerias Rushdie syndrome | 169 |
a historians reflections on amnesty in Algeria | 195 |
Notes | 207 |
Index | 230 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Algeria since 1989: Between Terror and Democracy Global History of the Present |
| Auteur | James D. Le Sueur |
| Editie | geļllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1848135351, 9781848135352 |
| Lengte | 269 pagina's |
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