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James D. Le Sueur

Algeria Since 1989

Between Terror and Democracy

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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 abo… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84277-725-1
  • EAN: 9781842777251
  • Produktnummer: 20744613
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.6 cm 384 g
  • Gewicht: 384
  • Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor


James D. Le Sueur is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and has been a Senior Associate Member of the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is an internationally recognized expert on Algeria and political Islam, French history and decolonization. He is currently producing a documentary film on the Algerian civil war. His books include Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria (2005) and The Decolonization Reader (2003).

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