Democratization in the Arab World?: Algeria’s Uneasy Peace

Issue Date October 2002
Volume 13
Issue 4
Page Numbers 15-23
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While many obstacles to democracy gravely mar Algeria’s political life, the country’s trajectory still affords some grounds for guarded optimism.

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