Title Algeria modern : from opacity to complexity / Luis Martinez and Rasmus Alenius Boserup

Published [New York] : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series The CERI series in comparative politics and international studies CERI series in comparative politics and international studies. Summary For decades, Algeria has been depicted as an inaccessible, opaque, rentier state and under the control of secret intelligence agencies and inaccessible 'cartels' and 'clans'. While that analysis is partly true, this work contends that the analytical emphasis on opacity risks missing how much the country has changed since the 1990s: the new transparency of the interest groups that govern the country; the competing notions of economic development within key financial institutions; the impact of non-revolutionary contentious politics; the micro-politics of the changing attitudes of the country's urban youth; the growth of moderate Islamist party politics; the changing notions of security held by the armed forces; and the dislocation of rebellion towards the South Notes Previously issued in print: 2016 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 19, 2016) Subject Politics and government SUBJECT Algeria -- Politics and government -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98001213 Subject Algeria Form Electronic book Author Martínez, Luis, 1965- editor. Boserup, Rasmus Alenius, editor ISBN 9780190638542 0190638540

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