Algeria Modern: From Opacity to Complexity (Ceri Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies)

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Spared by the Arab revolts, Bouteflika’s Algeria continues to intrigue observers. How does its political system function? Who truly governs? Who are at the back of the protests? How strong are the Islamists? Are there alternatives to dependence on hydrocarbons? And how will the regime securities its vast and unstable Sahara hinterland?
Algeria has been depicted for a few years as politically opaque, incomprehensible, and under the keep watch over of powerful, occult-like intelligence agencies. Even as these caricatures are all partly true, they understate how much the country has changed since the 1990s. Algeria today is complex, and challenging to comprehend; but it’s no longer opaque.

Algeria Up to date analyses the complexity of state and society and the strategies that social and political actors employ. It demonstrates how interest groups that constitute the core of the regime are linked to both the security and business sectors, which Even as defending their turf and united by shared values are, then again, in perennial competition. Embedded in a broader Maghreb and Sahel region that has been marked by civil war, rebellions, and foreign military intervention, many Algerians seem, albeit reluctantly, willing to endure the current hybrid form of authoritarian order so long as it provides at least security and welfare.

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