Suspended Disaster - Governing By Crisis in Bouteflika''s Algeria

After Algeriäs president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for a fifth term in early 2019, a popular peaceful uprising erupted calling for change. Thomas Serres offers new insights into the last years of Bouteflikäs rule and the factors that shaped the emergence of an unexpected social movement.

List of contents

Preface
1. A Never-Ending Crisis?
2. Struggles at the Heart of the State
3. Cronies and Labyrinths
4. Fragments of Order
5. The Regulation of Freedoms
6. The Crisis as a Lived Experience
7. In Search of Lost Meaning
Coda
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Methods of Inquiry
Appendix B: A Time Line for Bouteflika’s Algeria
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Thomas Serres is an assistant professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a coeditor of North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions, Culture (2018) and an editor for the Maghreb page on Jadaliyya.

Summary

After Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for a fifth term in early 2019, a popular peaceful uprising erupted calling for change. Thomas Serres offers new insights into the last years of Bouteflika’s rule and the factors that shaped the emergence of an unexpected social movement.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Serres
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2023
• EAN: 9780231212021
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21202-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Politics & government, Politics and government, Political science; history