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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... Arab” political platform and to use Arabic as a prime tool of national unification (a decision that incidentally mirrors the debate over the use of French to unify the nation during the French Revolution).12 The move to arabize the ...
... Arab” political platform and to use Arabic as a prime tool of national unification (a decision that incidentally mirrors the debate over the use of French to unify the nation during the French Revolution).12 The move to arabize the ...
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... Arab conquest of the seventh century. Reacting against the claims of Algerian postcolonial leaders (many of whom were in fact Kabyle) that national unification required subsuming regional and linguistic diversity into an overarching ...
... Arab conquest of the seventh century. Reacting against the claims of Algerian postcolonial leaders (many of whom were in fact Kabyle) that national unification required subsuming regional and linguistic diversity into an overarching ...
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... Arab, or all of the above? How could the fledgling state provide for a population of approximately eight million, of which over two million had been forcibly moved into concentration camps by the French military during decolonization ...
... Arab, or all of the above? How could the fledgling state provide for a population of approximately eight million, of which over two million had been forcibly moved into concentration camps by the French military during decolonization ...
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... Arab–Israeli war of 1973, which triggered Algeria's decision to accept the ban on oil exports to nations that supported Israel. The government's reliance on the energy sector, however, came as a mixed blessing, and by the 1980s ...
... Arab–Israeli war of 1973, which triggered Algeria's decision to accept the ban on oil exports to nations that supported Israel. The government's reliance on the energy sector, however, came as a mixed blessing, and by the 1980s ...
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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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