Product Description: Ambassador Cameron Hume's Mission to Algiers relates the dramatic account of the U.S. Algerian embassy's promotion of democracy, rule of law, and market economy in a region experiencing great change. Hume's first-hand account chronicles the Algerian government's near bankruptcy in the 1990s, the Islamist insurgency that killed 100,000 people and threatened the country's stability, and the slow push toward democracy in the face of one-party rule...read more

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The civil war in Algeria shows no sign of imminent resolution. Yet little has been written about the conflict, its various participants, and the opinions of Algerians―indeed, even about what exactly is being fought over. Restrictions on movement within Algeria have severely limited the ability of foreign journalists to analyze these issues, and there has been a paucity of firsthand accounts of how the conflict has played out across Algeria.Now, one of Europe's leading authorities on contemporary Algerian politics has gained the kind of access necessary to present a clear, evenhanded account. The author interviewed residents in places in which few journalists have set foot: the impoverished suburbs of the major cities and the infamous "Triangle of Death"―the stronghold of the Armed Islamic Group and the scene of some of the worst carnage. Rather than presenting a historical account, The Algerian Civil War focuses on the strategies employed by the war's main combatants, seeking to understand the significance of the conflict to all parties embroiled in it. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This multi-disciplinary work helps explain why Algeria, at the turn of the millennium remains the focus of profound struggle concerning the role of religion in politics. For more than two hundred years, Islam has motivated a great variety of political movements within Algeria...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In recent years, Algeria has been rocked by social upheaval, protest, and spasmodic violence. Like many countries caught between the tides of fundamentalist religion and secular culture, the very fiber of the nation seems to be fraying...read more

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An accessible introduction to Algeria for English-speaking students, analysts, businesspeople and general readers. The author explains how Algeria reached its multiple crises in the 1990s, arguing that issues left unresolved after Algeria won independence from France in 1962 were at the root of wha

Product Description: Using primary source material, this study explores concepts in understanding the Algerian guerrilla campaign. Besides the history of traditional and modern guerrilla warfare in world context, statistical analysis of FLN campaigns derived from French newspaper reports of incidents is also used...read more

Examines the activity of Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups in Algeria since 1992, when a secular military government called off a national election after its Islamic opponents won the first round

Product Description: For the past four years, Algeria has been torn by brutal political violence. The crisis has now spread to France, where Muslim groups have engaged in terrorist activities. Throughout the Maghreb and Western Europe, there is fear that the struggle in Algeria, if left untended, could destabilize North Africa, unsettle Southern Europe, and adversely affect the growth of democratic politics in the Middle East...read more