Miriam R. Lowi

Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics

Algeria Compared

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Produktbeschreibung

Explains why Algeria's post-colonial domestic political economy unravelled, and how the regime eventually managed to regain power and hegemony.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781107402966
• ISBN-10: 1107402964
• Artikelnr.: 33625007

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Introduction: 1. Oil shocks and the challenge to states
2. Natural resources and political instability
Part II. Algeria and its Discontents: 3. From conquest to independence
4. The elaboration of a system
5. From boom to bust, and ... verging on breakdown
6. The persistence of violence and the process of re-equilibration
Part III. Comparisons and Conclusions: 7. Variations on a theme: comparators in the Muslim world
8. Oil wealth and the poverty of politics
Bibliography.