
The Battlefield
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This collection of essays offers a radical corrective to Western misconceptions. Rejecting the usual tautological approaches of inherent, predetermined conflict, Hugh Roberts explores the outlook and evolution of the various internal forces as they emerged - the Islamists, the Berberists, the factions within the army, and the regime in general - and he looks at external interests and actors. He explains their strategies and the maneuvers in which they haveengaged. The resulting analyses illuminate the startling dynamics of the conflict and the real issues at stake, and identify the implications not only for Algeria but also for this crucial region.
Informed by a deep knowledge of Algeria and Algerian history, these accessible essays guide the reader through the extraordinary politics of the drama in all its complexity.
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- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Maps
- Part I: Algeria in crisis
- Chapter 1: The embattled Arians of Algiers: radical Islamism and the dilemma of Algerian nationalism
- Chapter 2: The FLN: French conceptions, Algerian realities
- Chapter 3: Algerian Islamism and the Gulf crisis
- Chapter 4: Doctrinaire economics and political opportunism in the strategy of Algerian Islamism
- Chapter 5: The Algerian state and the challenge of democracy
- Part II: The descent into violence
- Chapter 6: The armed rebellion and the continuation of politics
- Chapter 7: Historical and unhistorical approaches to the problem of identity in Algeria
- Chapter 8: Algeria between Zeroual and civil war
- Chapter 9: Algeria's ruinous impasse and the honourable way out
- Part III: Rebuilding on sand
- Chapter 10: A controversial constitution
- Chapter 11: Algeria's contested elections
- Chapter 12: The struggle for constitutional rule in Algeria
- Part IV: Under Western eyes
- Chapter 13: Third World, last rites
- Chapter 14: The international gallery and the extravasation of factional conflict in Algeria
- Chapter 15: Algeria's veiled drama
- Part V: Change without progress
- Chapter 16: Problems of the polity
- Chapter 17: The labours of Bouteflika
- Chapter 18: Riots without end?
- Chapter 19: The Kabyle cockpit
- Part VI: Algeria and Europe
- Chapter 20: France and the lost honour of Algeria's army
- Chapter 21: Dancing in the dark: Europe and the Algerian drama
- Afterword: Correcting the aim
- Notes
- Political chronology
- Bibliography
- Index
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