The unchanging politics of North Africa

Middle East Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 23-41

  Entelis, John P ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 36749008510     PISSN: 10611924     EISSN: 14754967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4967.2007.00322.x     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. For a detailed analysis of Algerian civil society, see John P. Entelis and Phillip C. Naylor, eds., State and Society in Algeria (Westview Press, 1992);
2. John P. Entelis, "Civil Society and the Authoritarian Temptation in Algerian Politics: Islamic Democracy vs. the Centralized State," in Augustus Richard Norton, ed., Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume 2 (EJ. Brill, 1996), pp.45-86;
3. and John P. Entelis, Algeria: The Revolution Institutionalized (Westview Press, 1986), chapter 4.
4. For an astute and fair-minded interpretation of Algeria's civil war, see Luis Martinez, The Algerian Civil War, 1990-1998 (Columbia University Press, 2000).
5. For a reinterpretation of elite politics in contemporary Algeria, see Isabelle Werenfels, Managing Instability in Algeria: Elites and Political Change Since 1995 (Routledge, 2007).
6. For a comprehensive review of Algeria's current political economy and its implication for the Maghrebi region and beyond, see Michael Bonner, Megan Rif and Mark Tessler, eds., Islam, Democracy and the State in Algeria: Lessons for the Western Mediterranean and Beyond (Routledge, 2005).
7. For a comprehensive historical overview of modern Tunisia, see Kenneth J. Perkins A History of Modern Tunisia (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
8. A theoretically oriented critique of Tunisia's "authoritarian syndrome" is provided in Michel Camau and Vincent Geisser, Le Syndrome Autoritaire: Politique en Tunisie de Bourguiba à Ben Ali (Paris: Presses des Sciences Po, 2003).
9. Sophisticated political economy analyses of Tunisia's paradoxical condition of dependent capitalism are provided by Eva Bellin, Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development (Cornell University Press, 2002)
10. and Melani Claire Cammett, Globalization and Business Politics in Arab North Africa [Morocco and Tunisia}: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
11. For a balanced and comprehensive overview of Morocco's modern political history, see Marvine Howe, Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges (Oxford University Press, 2005).
12. For a superb, insightful, and deeply informed analysis of the "performance of human rights" in Morocco, see Susan Slyomovics, The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).
13. The negative impact of globalization on Morocco's domestic political economy is well treated in Shana Cohen and Larabi Jaidi, Morocco: Globalization and Its Consequences (Routledge, 2006).
14. The most authoritative analyses of Libya's political history and political economy remain those of Dirk Vandewalle. See Dirk Vandewalle, Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-Building (Cornell University Press, 1998).
15. Dirk Vandewalle, A History of Modern Libya (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
16. and Dirk Vandewalle, ed., Libya Since 1969: Qadhafi's Revolution Revisited (Palgrave, 2007).