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Algeria - Anger of the Dispossessed (Hardcover)
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Algeria - Anger of the Dispossessed (Hardcover)
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How Algeria became a breeding ground for instability, violence, and
Islamic terrorism After liberating itself from French colonial rule
in one of the twentieth century's most brutal wars of independence,
Algeria became a standard-bearer for the non-aligned movement. By
the 1990s, however, its revolutionary political model had
collapsed, degenerating into a savage conflict between the military
and Islamist guerillas that killed some 200,000 citizens. In this
lucid and gripping account, Martin Evans and John Phillips explore
Algeria's recent and very bloody history, demonstrating how the
high hopes of independence turned into anger as young Algerians
grew increasingly alienated. Unemployed, frustrated by the corrupt
military regime, and excluded by the West, the post-independence
generation needed new heroes, and some found them in Osama bin
Laden and the rising Islamist movement. Evans and Phillips trace
the complex roots of this alienation, arguing that Algeria's
predicament-political instability, pressing economic and social
problems, bad governance, a disenfranchised youth-is emblematic of
an arc of insecurity stretching from Morocco to Indonesia. Looking
back at the pre-colonial and colonial periods, they place Algeria's
complex present into historical context, demonstrating how
successive governments have manipulated the past for their own
ends. The result is a fractured society with a complicated and
bitter relationship with the Western powers-and an increasing
tendency to export terrorism to France, America, and beyond.
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