When mass protests erupted in Algeria in 2019, on a scale unseen
anywhere in the region since the Arab Spring, the outside world was
taken by surprise. Algeria had been largely unaffected by the
turmoil that engulfed its neighbours in 2011, and it was widely
assumed that the population was too traumatised and cowed by the
country's bloody civil war to take to the streets demanding change.
Michael J. Willis offers an explanation of this unexpected
development known as the Hirak Movement, examining the political
and social changes that have occurred in Algeria since the 'dark
decade' of the 1990s. He examines how the bitter civil conflict was
brought to an end, and how a fresh political order was established
following the 1999 election of a dynamic new leader, Abdelaziz
Bouteflika. Initially underwritten by revenue from Algeria's
substantial hydrocarbons resources, this new order came to be
undermined by falling oil prices, an ailing president, and a
population determined to have its voice heard by an increasingly
corrupt, out-of-touch and opaque national leadership. Exactly
twenty years passed before Bouteflika's presidency was brought to
an end by the Hirak protests--this book is an authoritative account
of them.
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