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Abbreviations and acronyms
Introduction: democratic reform, terrorism, and reconciliation
1 | Building a postcolonial state
The FLN, the aftermath, and the state
Confronting postcolonial unknowns
Houari Boumediene and the planned state
Boumediene, the economy, and society
Chadli Bendjedid and liberalization
The rise of political Islam
The short career of the Algerian glasnost
Assessing the Islamists’ success and the First Gulf War
“The Nezzar plan”: radicalizing the Islamists
The December 1991 elections and the coup d’état
3 | The kingmakers: generals and presidents in a time of terror
The revolution that did not happen
Belaïd Abdessalam, repression, and the question of legitimacy
Between eradication and dialogue
Liamine Zeroual: from general to president
The 1995 presidential elections
4 | The Bouteflika era: civil society, peace, and sidelining generals
Pax Bouteflika: the law on civil concord
Assessing amnesty and controlling power
The demilitarization of state power
5 | Energy and the economy of terror
Privatization, energy, and the First Gulf War
International actors and the move toward privatization
Europe and Algerian energy
The downside of privatization
Terrorism, investment, and human rights
The Bouteflika imperative
The dual economy and security inequalities
6 | A genealogy of terror: local and global jihadis
How democracy became takfir
Djamal Zitouni and Air France 8969
GIA’s tactics under fire from al Qaeda
The jihad comes to France: the Paris metro bombings
The strange case of the murder of the Trappist monks
Londonistan, the Finsbury Park Mosque, and the world of spies
7 | The future of radical Islam: from the GSPC to AQMI
Hassan Hattab, the GSPC, and the global jihad
From millennium bomber to state’s witness: Ahmed Ressam and the GSPC in America
The strange ordeal of the Saharan kidnappings
The GSPC and the al Qaeda alliance
Consolidating the GSPC and denouncing reconciliation
The al Qaeda merger: AQMI
8 | Killing the messengers: Algeria’s Rushdie syndrome
The contagion of intolerance
Intellectuals and state oppression
The art of terror and the transformation of violence in exile
Conclusion: a historian’s reflections on amnesty in Algeria
1 Building a postcolonial state
5 Energy and the economy of terror
7 The future of radical Islam
Algeria since 1989
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