The Algerian Civil War, 1990-1998
Tracing the years, 1990-1998, this text asserts that the Algerian civil war has striking similarities, indeed continuities, with that of the Ottoman regency, the French conquest and colonial occupation, and the national liberation war.
Print Book, English, 2000
Hurst in association with the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches International, Paris, London, 2000
xxi, 265 pages : map ; 23 cm
9781850655152, 9781850655176, 1850655154, 1850655170
60175715
Part 1 The origins of the civil war: social transformation and political change; a revolutionary situation; onset of war. Part 2 Mainspring of the civil war: the logic of war of the Islamist groups; the new means of self-enrichment; the security-first policy. Part 3 Consolidation of the war: the war economy and the political dynamic; Islamist Guerrilla ideology and strategy; return to the Ottoman era.
Based on the author's doctoral thesis
Translated from the French