Financial Times
No book ever came more perfectly on cue than Martin Stones The Agony of Algeria, with its mission to explain. Its thesis is that the issues left unresolved after Algeria won independence in 1962 are at the root of its current predicament. By grounding his argument in a tour-dhorizon of two millennia, Stone shows how complex those issues are.


Financial Times
No book ever came more perfectly on cue than Martin Stone's The Agony of Algeria, with its mission to explain. Its thesis is that the issues left unresolved after Algeria won independence in 1962 are at the root of its current predicament. By grounding his argument in a tour-d'horizon of two millennia, Stone shows how complex those issues are.


Choice
Stone provides a brief historical overview of Algeria since 1830 before focusing on three crucial phases of the postcolonial era: that of Ben Bella and Boumedienne; the reform era of Chadli Benjedid; and the political and economic crisis under the Higher States Committee (HCE). He examines the dominant state institutions,the army and the FLN,and outlines the increasingly bitter divisions, social and political, which account for the current crisis.


Book Description
Examining Algeria's history, from the founding of the Berber kingdoms, 130 years of French rule, and the devastating war for independence----gained in 1962----to the present, this book makes intelligible the current crisis tearing at the fabric of the country's society, while offering an analysis of the social, economic, and political challenges ahead.


About the Author
Martin Stone is a regular contributor on Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia for the journal Business Middle East.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Examining Algeria's history, from the founding of the Berber kingdoms, 130 years of French rule, and the devastating war for independence­­gained in 1962­­to the present, this book makes intelligible the current crisis tearing at the fabric of the country's society, while offering an analysis of the social, economic, and political challenges ahead.

Stone provides a brief historical overview of Algeria since 1830 before focusing on three crucial phases of the postcolonial era: that of Ben Bella and Boumedienne; the reform era of Chadli Benjedid; and the political and economic crisis under the Higher States Committee (HCE). He examines the dominant state institutions - the army and the FLN - and outlines the increasingly bitter divisions, social and political, which account for the current crisis. (Choice)

No book ever came more perfectly on cue than Martin Stone´s The Agony of Algeria, with its mission to explain. Its thesis is that the issues left unresolved after Algeria won independence in 1962 are at the root of its current predicament. By grounding his argument in a tour-d´horizon of two millennia, Stone shows how complex those issues are. (Financial Times)

SYNOPSIS

Examining Algeria's history, from the founding of the Berber kingdoms, 130 years of French rule, and the devastating war for independence­­gained in 1962­­to the present, this book makes intelligible the current crisis tearing at the fabric of the country's society, while offering an analysis of the social, economic, and

FROM THE CRITICS

Choice