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Foreign Policy and the Global War on Terror in the Reproduction of Algerian State Power

2012; Publications de la Sorbonne; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

1293-8882

Jeremy Keenan,

Global Political and Social Dynamics

This paper reveals how Algeria has managed its foreign policy since the “Dirty War” of the 1990s, especially through its post-9/11 alliance with the USA, to re-establish itself in the international community and to re-equip its army with modern weaponry. It shows the contradictory nature of its relationship with the US, based on the two states’ collusion in the fabrication of terrorism and their subsequent pursuance of the global war on terror (GWOT). By strengthening the Algerian mukhabarat (police state) and enabling it to become even more repressive, this policy has exacerbated the conditions that might lead to an Algerian “Arab Spring.”