Algeria since 1989: Between Terror and DemocracyBloomsbury Publishing, 14 jan 2010 - 269 pagina's Algeria'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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... challenges assumptions about the past and the present. Published Thabit A. J. Abdullah, Dictatorship, Imperialism and Chaos: Iraq since 1989 Timothy Cheek, Living with Reform: China since 1989 Alexander Dawson, First World Dreams ...
... challenges assumptions about the past and the present. Published Thabit A. J. Abdullah, Dictatorship, Imperialism and Chaos: Iraq since 1989 Timothy Cheek, Living with Reform: China since 1989 Alexander Dawson, First World Dreams ...
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... challenged opponents in an effort to determine what kind of idea of civil society and which cultural mores would prevail. These options corresponded to a central question in the minds of many reformers: would Algeria be a theocratic ...
... challenged opponents in an effort to determine what kind of idea of civil society and which cultural mores would prevail. These options corresponded to a central question in the minds of many reformers: would Algeria be a theocratic ...
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... challenges to military regimes, democracy was seen in many ways as the Islamists' Trojan horse. In other words, according to some, Islamists would use the democratic process to subvert democracy itself. As George Joffé notes, the FIS ...
... challenges to military regimes, democracy was seen in many ways as the Islamists' Trojan horse. In other words, according to some, Islamists would use the democratic process to subvert democracy itself. As George Joffé notes, the FIS ...
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... challenges. Of particular concern were the perceived differences between the Arab and Berber populations (accentuated by the decision to immediately arabize the nation after independence) and a nascent conflict with Morocco over the ...
... challenges. Of particular concern were the perceived differences between the Arab and Berber populations (accentuated by the decision to immediately arabize the nation after independence) and a nascent conflict with Morocco over the ...
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... challenged the emerging postcolonial belief that a single state required forging a single people and a single party ... challenge for the Algerian state came in the form of a border dispute with Morocco often referred to as the “Sands ...
... challenged the emerging postcolonial belief that a single state required forging a single people and a single party ... challenge for the Algerian state came in the form of a border dispute with Morocco often referred to as the “Sands ...
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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