Algeria Modern
From Opacity to Complexity
Edited by Luis Martinez and Rasmus Alenius Boserup
Reviews and Awards
"An extremely timely book that addresses comprehensively one of the least known and understood countries in the Arab world, just as it enters a new period of political and economic change. The contributors provide important insights into how Algeria emerged from its traumatic experiences of the 1980s and 1990s and the lessons this provides for the tumult the Arab world is currently experiencing." -- Michael Willis, King Mohamed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies, University of Oxford, and author of Politics and Power in the Maghreb
"This volume provides a judicious assessment of how the Bouteflika regime has demilitarized the Algerian polity without, however, altering the architecture of control. It provides a provocative reinterpretation of how politics and power in Algeria have evolved and yet remain the same despite the wholesale house cleaning of the intelligence service. A must-read for those interested in authoritarian resiliency." -- John P. Entelis, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University, and author of, among others, Algeria: The Revolution Institutionalized
"This book is timely and significant. It both reveals how Algeria has changed since its civil war in the 1990s and how scholars now interpret North Africa's most important country. The contributors, moreover, are acknowledged specialists of the country, or have recently completed research there, and so are ideal guides to its evolving complexities." -- George Joffé, Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, and editor of Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa
