The failure of the authoritarian developmentalist regimes and the emergence of radical protest movements in the Middle East and Africa: the case of Algeria
Article Abstract:
The Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) initiated a radical movement against the inability of the authoritarian Front de Liberation Nationale Party to improve the socioeconomic conditions in Algeria. The economic strategies of the authoritarian system established in 1962, benefitted only the people in power. Political changes initiated after the Oct. 1988 riots, were oriented towards preserving the authoritarian system. FIS won the 1990 elections, but later lost the people's support. The lack of democratic political culture and an organized civil society have hindered the democratic movement in Algeria.
Publication Name: Journal of Third World Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 8755-3449
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
The west, natural resources and population control policies in Africa in historical perspective
Article Abstract:
The trans-Atlantic slave trade of the 15th-19th centuries through the genocides of the imperial era and the repression, to the diseases, epidemics have systematically pursued eugenics policies, on the basis of incontrovertible historical and factual evidence. Such policies are designed to control, reduce and eliminate altogether Africa's population for the avowed purpose of gaining exclusive access to the continent's best agricultural land to serve its commodity requirements.
Publication Name: Journal of Third World Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 8755-3449
Year: 2005
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
From political dictatorship to authoritarian economism: Plural politics and free market reforms in Africa
Article Abstract:
The study examines the political and economic trajectories of globalization by focusing on political pluralism and free market reforms in Africa as manifested in structural adjustment. It is argued that the free play of market forces is best placed to most efficiently allocate available resources, and that the competition emanating from there augurs well for economies.
Publication Name: Journal of Third World Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 8755-3449
Year: 2004
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: The second 'women's war' and the emergence of democratic government in Manipur. Tales of treachery: rumour as the source of claims that Tipu Sultan was betrayed
- Abstracts: Dr. Mabuse: Terror and deception of the image. On the emergence of sexual difference in the 18th century: economies of pleasure in Herder's Liebe und Selbstheit
- Abstracts: Federal arrangements and the provision of public good in India
- Abstracts: Burying Sergeant Rice: racial justice and Native American rights in the Truman era. Conversing with the dead: The militia movement and American history
- Abstracts: Burying Sergeant Rice: racial justice and Native American rights in the Truman era. part 2 Clockwork nation: Modern time moral perfectionism and American identity in Catherine Beecher and Henry Thoreau