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 Algeria - Government and Politics
A strong authoritative tendency and the supremacy of the military, both remnants of the war for liberation, have resulted in a sharply divided society in which the political elite remains highly remote from, and generally unaccountable to, the masses of its impoverished, unemployed, and dissatisfied citizens.
Algeria's bloody overthrow of colonial rule resulted in independence in 1962 and a legacy of an authoritarian political structure dominated by several competing interests.
The current situation is potentially dangerous because of the explosive nature of the political tensions inherent in the repression of a discontented population.
countrystudies.us /algeria/107.htm   (634 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Polisario, backed by Algeria, has since 1976 been claiming independence of this territory despite the l...
I think of the French OAS in Algeria in 1962, setting off bombs among France's Muslim Algerian community.
Natives of the 13 countries — Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tu...
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/Algeria   (1120 words)

  
 political, politics, authority, Political, those, views, behavior, Politics, through, Foucault, three, third, proposed ...
Political science (also political studies) is the study of the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior.
The multiple notions of political power that are put forth range from conventional views that simply revolve around the actions of politicians to those who view political power as an insidious form of institutionalized social control - most notably "anarchists" and "radical capitalists".
Bachrach and Baratz viewed power as involving both the formal political arena and behind the scenes agenda-setting by elite groups who could be either politicians and/or others (such as industrialists, campaign contributors, special interest groups and so on), often with a hidden agenda that most of the public may not be aware of.
www.alphasearch.org /Politics.html   (1762 words)

  
 AISA - Electronic Monograph: Algeria: The Politics of Fundamentalism and Extremism
When Algeria gained its independence in 1962, after 132 years of colonial subjugation and exploitation, its politics were be dominated by the FLN (National Liberation Front), since all the pre-existing parties and political tendencies were forced to dissolve within the Front that was spearheading the anti-colonial revolution.
Algeria, like Saudi Arabia and Morocco, could well become a target of suicide attacks as religious fundamentalists with links to Al-Qaeda may seek to undermine the government of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika as a means to perpetuate an unjust course of violent retaliation against the state.
Algeria thus represents a specific case were terror has been exported beyond the confines of Algiers and the rest of the country, and could well come to pose a transnational threat in the future, if not effectively dealt with by the Algerian authorities.
www.ai.org.za /electronic_monograph.asp?ID=14   (4179 words)

  
 Algeria - Gurupedia
Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by the "Barbarossa" brothers Aruj and Khair ad Din, who made its coast a base for the corsairs; their privateering peaked in Algiers in the 1600's, after which the center of activity moved to Tripoli in Libya.
Algeria's first president, the FLN leader Ahmed Ben Bella, was overthrown by his former ally and defense minister, Houari Boumédiènne in 1965.
In the 1990s, Algeria was engulfed in a bloody civil war after the military prevented an Islamist political party, the Islamic Salvation Front from taking power following the country's first multiparty elections.
www.gurupedia.com /a/al/algeria.htm   (921 words)

  
 Politics of Algeria
Under the 1976 Constitution (as modified 1979, and amended in 1988, 1989, and 1996) Algeria is a multi-party state.
According to the Constitution, no political association may be formed if it is "based on differences in religion, language, race gender or region." The head of state is the President of the republic, who is elected to a 5-year term, renewable once.
Algeria is divided into 48 wilaya (state or province) headed by walis (governors) who report to the Minister of Interior.
www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Algeria.html   (932 words)

  
 Top20Algeria - Your Top20 Guide to Algeria
The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers, from the Arabic word al-jazā’ir, which translates as the islands, referring to the four islands which lay off that city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525.
Algeria's social fabric was stretched to breaking point during this period: literacy dropped massively, while land confiscation uprooted much of the population.
Algeria has the fifth-largest reserves of natural gas in the world and is the second largest gas exporter; it ranks 14th in Petroleum reserves.
www.top20algeria.com   (1856 words)

  
 Algeria´s Government, Politics - International Relations - Foreign Policy - Political Developments
Algeria reciprocated by temporarily closing the border between the two countries and imposing entry visas on Moroccan nationals.
Algeria´s relations with Germany (strained by the presence of FIS spokesman Rebah Kebir in Germany) improved in March 1996 when Werner Hoyer, Germany´s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, visited Algeria.
In December 1996 Algeria commenced discussions with officials of the EU on Algeria´s admission to the Euro-Mediterranean free-trade zone; negotiations were expected to continue until at least 2000.
www.arab.de /arabinfo/algeria-government.htm   (496 words)

  
 ALGERIA | politics & economics | oil & e-technology
The focus is on politics, and on economics (especially the oil and e-technology sectors) in the context of globalization.
He opposes the nullification of Algeria's elections in 1991 (in this particular case, he has an extremely generous definition of what are 'modedrate' islamic parities!).
The world at war - Massacre in Algeria: The Algerian War began at Setif "As France celebrated victory in Europe on 8 May 1945, its army was massacring thousands of civilians in Stif and Guelma - events that were the real beginning of Algerias war of independence." By Mohammed Harbi.
www-personal.umich.edu /~twod/algeria/blog   (735 words)

  
 The Rising Threat of Revolutionary Islam in Algeria
Algeria's plunge into civil strife was precipitated by three intertwined crises -- economic, social, and political -- that undermined the legitimacy of the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) regime.
Algeria's population surged from 10 million in 1962 to its current level of 28.5 million (and continues to grow at the rapid rate of about 3 percent per year).
Algeria's rush to elections gave the Islamists an advantage over other political movements that were not as organized or prepared.
www.heritage.org /Research/Africa/BG1060.cfm   (6962 words)

  
 Algeria: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Algeria and the United States have a somewhat ambivalent relationship, but the two countries formed strategic ties in the battle against radical Islam following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
Its members, including Algeria, that are pumping beyond their formal OPEC quotas aim to hold onto market share by using real output as a baseline for the...
Industrial activity in Algeria accelerated in both the public and private sectors in the second quarter, according to a survey conducted by the National...
www.mongabay.com /reference/new_profiles/985.html   (2251 words)

  
 Politics
Platform of the Political Agreement of the "Group of Five," January 30, 1999.
Algeria's Elections: Analysis and Prospects, presentation by Mona Yacoubian and sponsored by the Middle East Institute.
Presented in the framework of the visit of the Spanish president to Algeria.
www.waac.info /amazigh/politics/index.html   (535 words)

  
 Algeria - GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Political system based on strong presidential rule; provides in theory for multiparty system, separation of religious institution and state, and military subordination to civilian authority.
Politics: Liberalizing government of President Chadli Benjedid toppled by military in January 1992.
Political violence and terrorism endemic, including killings of numerous foreigners since 1992.
www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-312.html   (257 words)

  
 ALGERIA IN OTHERS' LANGUAGES
Their topics range from analyses of political violence to the status of the principal of evidence in the legal system to the place of “Francophonie” in the 1990s.
Describing the history of Algeria's society and languages and their sometimes very personal experiences with these languages, most of the authors try to show specific connections between the violence in Algeria and linguistic issues.
"Algeria in Others' Languages is a timely collection that explores the incredibly complex and vexing issues of language, politics, and gender in one of the most problematic postcolonial spaces.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu /cup_detail.taf?ti_id=3743   (1002 words)

  
 Energy Plug: Country Analysis Brief: Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Algeria is the world's second largest exporter of natural gas, possesses reserves of natural gas sufficient to rank it among the top ten countries, and is one of the most attractive crude-oil exploration areas in the world.
Algeria's ongoing civil war is therefore of concern to energy markets.
Country Analysis Brief: Algeria, which has been newly updated, discusses the country's crude oil and natural gas assets, infrastructure, and performance; sketches Algeria's politics; and gives brief overviews of the country's demography, economy, and environment.
www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/plugs/plalg.html   (346 words)

  
 Algeria - The Elite
Because personal contacts and privileged access to capital account for personal status and class in Algeria, the administrative elite and its networks represent a major factor in the political environment.
Army officials are represented on all major political institutions and frequently have more influence in regional administration than do the civilian provincial governors.
Anticipating what the armed forces interpreted to be a "grave threat" to the secular interests and political stability of the state and defying the apparent government and national volition, the military demonstrated that it alone would determine the course of Algerian politics.
countrystudies.us /algeria/132.htm   (540 words)

  
 The Moral Economy of Islam: Bibliographies
Abstract: Algerian democratic reforms are being hindered by the political orientation of the state.
Abstract: Western observers of Algerian politics have imposed certain conceptual frameworks which are alien to Algeria in their analyses, and generally failed to account for the particular forces driving Algerian politics.
Politics has been simplistically regarded as driven by economic determinism, and the National Liberation Front has been treated as though it were a party rather than an organ of the state.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu /Islam/algeriaJ.html   (486 words)

  
 afrol News - Algeria News
The report documents frequent flights of CIA abductees to the capitals of Algeria, Egypt and Morocco and torture cases in Egypt and Morocco.
Alongside this organising drive, the UGTA is also leading a campaign against sexual harassment and a campaign for the revision of Algeria's family code, as executive member Souad Charid explains.
Therefore, new swarms are not expected to reach the Maghreb countries of Morocco and Algeria this spring.
www.afrol.com /countries/algeria/news   (1063 words)

  
 Algeria: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
Nearly four times the size of Texas, Algeria is bordered on the west by Morocco and Western Sahara and on the east by Tunisia and Libya.
Algeria: Economy - Economy About one fourth of Algeria's workers are engaged in farming, but agriculture contributes...
Algeria: Government - Government Algeria is governed under the constitution of 1976, which has been revised numerous...
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107272.html   (841 words)

  
 Marweb, Search Engine: Regional_countries/Algeria
Algeria - General information about history, politics and economy of the republic of Algeria.
Algeria by the Arab World institute in Paris - Geography, history, economy and education.
Algeria Network - Portal on economy, culture and politics in Algeria, e-mail, forum and ads services.
en.marweb.com /Regional_countries/Algeria   (245 words)

  
 Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 10/25/1999
The Algeria News Agency on Thursday reported that the Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has released a decree which permits former Algerian President Chadli Benjedid to move freely.
Some 65 members from the armed groups in Algeria have surrendered under the new reconciliation law to the sides concerned in the capital Algiers under the provisions of the civil concord law, said the Algerian daily al-Khabar.
Morocco is striving to reopen land borders with Algeria, the Moroccan territory management, environment, town-planning and environment minister, Mohamed Yazghi, said.
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Weekly/Algeria/19991025.html   (476 words)

  
 Books, Maps and Atlases for Algeria
He has apparently spent a fair amount of time in Algeria and had been to much of the Algerian desert prior to the trip he recounts in this book (actually, many of the anecdotes he tells are from previous trips).
Using colonial Algeria as the starting point of her analysis, Patricia Lorcin explores the manner in which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions are developed and used in society.
A political history of North African Jewry, tracing the exposure of three Third World Jewish communities to modernization and to relations with the Muslims and European settlers.
www.africaguide.com /country/algeria/books.htm   (982 words)

  
 Africa Book Centre Limited Politics
Account of Algerian politics which places current events in the international context. Volpi offers valuable insights into the processes of democratisation and its relationship with Islam and other non-democratic Muslim countries. Index, refs, notes, 168pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS, 0745319769
Has Algeria emerged from ten years of crisis? This book attempts to draw up a balance sheet of the last decade, and considers where Algerian society might be going. BNS, 384pp, in French, FRANCE. KARTHALA, 2845861885
Deals with the economic and developmental challenges facing contemporary Algerian society. The social structures, the political institutions, the movements and ideologies, as well as cultural dilemmas, are considered in depth. Bib, 192pp, UK. INTELLECT BOOKS.
www.africabookcentre.com /acatalog/Politics_Algeria.html   (272 words)

  
 Algeria Resource Guide
Algeria Interface runs a fascinating double profile on Louisa Hanoun, president of the Workers' Party, which won 20 seats in the May 30 2002 general elections; and Khalida Messaoudi, Algeria's new minister of culture and communication and government spokesperson.
Bencherif concluded that Algeria is facing a threat in the form of "totalitarian Islamism", as dangerous as the fascist scourge, which threatened Europe in the late 1930s.
Algeria's Minister of Energy and Mines, and a former President of OPEC, Chakib Khelil argues that the security of the world's crude oil supply is vital for market stability and for the economic development of poor oil-producing nations, like Algeria.
meria.idc.ac.il /research-g/algeria.html   (10516 words)

  
 Algeria
Despite widespread electoral fraud in 1997 and 1999, Algeria is one of the few Arab countries in which people can actually cast a vote (votes are not necessarily counted, but it's a beginning).
Neither did the Berbers of the Kabylie province (which are to Algeria what the the Palestinians are to Israel, except they don't blow up civilians).
In 1999 the new government of Abdelaziz Buteflika released 1100 dissidents, arrested 22 corrupt politicians and indicted generals who have ruled Algeria with dubious means).
www.scaruffi.com /politics/algeria.html   (616 words)

  
 MERIP Media Resource List, September 28, 2005
His research interests include North African immigration, religion and politics in France; Berber and regionalist politics in Algeria; and the Amazigh cultural movement in Morocco.
He commented today: "The Algerian referendum on 'peace and national reconciliation' caps the process of reintegrating Algeria's various political currents into the re-asserted state structures that many observers over the past decade had believed to be on the brink of collapse.
He is the author of several books and many articles, including Economic Crisis and Political Change in North Africa (Praeger, 1998) and the book chapter "Political Liberalization and the Islamists in Algeria," in Islam, Democracy and the State in Algeria (Routledge, 2005).
www.merip.org /press_room/mrl/mrl092805.html   (565 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Algeria / Bibliography
Quandt, William B. "The Berbers in the Algerian Political Elite." Pages 285-303 in Ernest Gellner and Charles Micaud (eds.), Arabs and Berbers: From Tribe to Nation in North Africa.
"Algeria: A Difficult Adjustment." In Agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa.
"Islam, Democracy, and the State: The Reemergence of Authoritarian Politics in Algeria." (Revised paper presented at Eighteenth Annual Symposium, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University on "Islamism and Secularism in North Africa," Washington, April 1-2, 1993.) ------.
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/algeria/dz_bibl.html   (3007 words)

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