Format:
1 Online-Ressource (269 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781848135352
Series Statement:
Global History of the Present
Content:
Algeria's democratic experiment is seminal in post-Cold War history. It is the first Muslim nation to attempt the transition from an authoritarian system to democratic pluralism. This title shows that Algeria is at the heart of contemporary debates about Islam and secular democracy
Content:
Prelims -- About the series -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- 1827-1953 -- 1954 -- 1955-1958 -- 1959-1962 -- 1963-1987 -- 1988-1991 -- 1992-1994 -- 1995-1996 -- 1997-1999 -- 2000-2003 -- 2004-2006 -- 2007-2009 -- The principals -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Map of Algeria -- Introduction: democratic reform, terrorism, and reconciliation -- Democratic reform -- The terror -- National reconciliation -- 1 | Building a postcolonial state -- The FLN, the aftermath, and the state -- Confronting postcolonial unknowns -- Houari Boumediene and the planned state -- Boumediene, the economy, and society -- Chadli Bendjedid and liberalization -- The rise of political Islam -- 2 | The road to reform -- The crisis of 1988 -- Co-opting the Islamists -- The short career of the Algerian glasnost -- Assessing the Islamists' success and the First Gulf War -- "The Nezzar plan": radicalizing the Islamists -- The December 1991 elections and the coup d'état -- 3 | The kingmakers: generals and presidents in a time of terror -- The military gamble -- The revolution that did not happen -- Belaïd Abdessalam, repression, and the question of legitimacy -- Between eradication and dialogue -- Liamine Zeroual: from general to president -- The 1995 presidential elections -- 4 | The Bouteflika era: civil society, peace, and sidelining generals -- Pax Bouteflika: the law on civil concord -- Assessing amnesty and controlling power -- The demilitarization of state power -- National reconciliation -- "President for life" -- 5 | Energy and the economy of terror -- Privatization, energy, and the First Gulf War -- The French connection -- International actors and the move toward privatization -- Europe and Algerian energy -- The downside of privatization -- Terrorism, investment, and human rights -- The Bouteflika imperative
Content:
The dual economy and security inequalities -- The business of peace -- 6 | A genealogy of terror: local and global jihadis -- How democracy became takfir -- Djamal Zitouni and Air France 8969 -- GIA's tactics under fire from al Qaeda -- The FIS and the GIA -- The jihad comes to France: the Paris metro bombings -- The strange case of the murder of the Trappist monks -- Londonistan, the Finsbury Park Mosque, and the world of spies -- 7 | The future of radical Islam: from the GSPC to AQMI -- Hassan Hattab, the GSPC, and the global jihad -- From millennium bomber to state's witness: Ahmed Ressam and the GSPC in America -- The strange ordeal of the Saharan kidnappings -- The GSPC and the al Qaeda alliance -- Consolidating the GSPC and denouncing reconciliation -- The al Qaeda merger: AQMI -- 8 | Killing the messengers: Algeria's Rushdie syndrome -- The contagion of intolerance -- Intellectuals and state oppression -- Women, sport, and shorts -- The total cultural war -- Music and raï -- The art of terror and the transformation of violence in exile -- Conclusion: a historian's reflections on amnesty in Algeria -- The pitfalls of peace -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Building a postcolonial state -- 2 The road to reform -- 3 The kingmakers -- 4 The Bouteflika era -- 5 Energy and the economy of terror -- 6 A genealogy of terror -- 7 The future of radical Islam -- 8 Killing the messengers -- Conclusion -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781842777251
Additional Edition:
Print version Le Sueur, James D Algeria since 1989 : Between Terror and Democracy London : Zed Books,c2010 ISBN 9781842777251
Language:
English
Keywords:
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