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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... (Algerian Workers Party), Ahmed Ben Bella and Khaled Bensmain (Movement for Democracy in Algeria), Ahmed Djaballah (al-Nahda), Ahmed Ben Mouhammed (Contemporary Muslim Algeria). July 11 – FIS leader Abdelkai Sahraoui assassinated in ...
... (Algerian Workers Party), Ahmed Ben Bella and Khaled Bensmain (Movement for Democracy in Algeria), Ahmed Djaballah (al-Nahda), Ahmed Ben Mouhammed (Contemporary Muslim Algeria). July 11 – FIS leader Abdelkai Sahraoui assassinated in ...
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... Algeria had pulled off one of the greatest diplomatic feats of the twentieth century. Contrasted against the failed hijacking of Air France flight 8969 (when Algerian terrorists attempted to blow up a plane over the Eiffel Tower on ...
... Algeria had pulled off one of the greatest diplomatic feats of the twentieth century. Contrasted against the failed hijacking of Air France flight 8969 (when Algerian terrorists attempted to blow up a plane over the Eiffel Tower on ...
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... Algerian terrorists were calculated strikes at key Western targets and served as important precursors to 9/11. Indeed, by the 1990s Algeria's previous fortunes seemed to have unequivocally reversed, and many foreign governments, the ...
... Algerian terrorists were calculated strikes at key Western targets and served as important precursors to 9/11. Indeed, by the 1990s Algeria's previous fortunes seemed to have unequivocally reversed, and many foreign governments, the ...
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... 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 the nation was now necessary, because the FLN had long since outworn ...
... 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 the nation was now necessary, because the FLN had long since outworn ...
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... Algeria, as for France during the French Revolution, the period of political reform gave way to a middle state of the conflict, the age of terror. That middle phase of absolute terror in Algeria lasted roughly from 1992 to 1998. As a ...
... Algeria, as for France during the French Revolution, the period of political reform gave way to a middle state of the conflict, the age of terror. That middle phase of absolute terror in Algeria lasted roughly from 1992 to 1998. As a ...
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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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