President of Algeria

Country Background Algeria, officially known as the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Algeria, is located in Northern Africa. It borders the countries of Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya, Tunisia, and the disputed land of Western Sahara. Algeria has a prominent coastline, and its capital city of Algiers is located on a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The territorial size of the country is 2,381,740 square kilometers (919,594 square miles) which is more than three times the size of Texas (U

Algeria is a North African Mediterranean Country, dominantly populated by Sunni Muslims. Multiple Arabic and Berber dialects are spoken throughout the land. The majority of North African countries have defined cultural identifies, however Algeria lacks a firm cultural foundation and has become somewhat of a piecemeal (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, 2011). Algeria was not always been independent and has been a part of several border and authority changes. Since its independency

Colonization was launched to promote a new vision of economic and social development; for colonial route of trade, to search for gold, a place to live for dissidents, building a prestigious image, or for neutralizing a pirate state like France in Algeria. Even though the colonial expansion had a lot of opposition and was largely considered a waste of money and military efforts, but also it had influential supporters, proclaiming it would bring liberty and civilization to the world. On the eve of the

When he became President in April 1999, Bouteflika was in front of three enormous challenges. The first one was the result of a decade of domestic violence and insecurity. The second was the consequence of a catastrophic socio-economic situation attributed to the legacy of decades of statist economics (Bouandel 25-26). The third was the harmful product of the isolation of Algeria from the rest of the world, or what Hugh Roberts called “the virtual quarantine in which Algeria had been confined since

When Bouteflika became President in 1999, there were no indications that the Algerian foreign policy would undergo any change. Alexis Arieff’s assumption that: “The legacy of Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle contributes to Algerian leaders’ desire to prevent direct foreign intervention, their residual scepticism of French intentions, and Algeria’s positions on regional affairs, including a non-interventionist stance” (1) was an anticipation that no far reaching variations in the Algerian foreign

examine the unique conditions that were bestowed on them by their colonizers. In this paper, the theme of colonial Algeria and the legacies of colonialism will be the focus. Moreover, French imperialism will be highlighted through exploring what distinctly defines French imperialism, such as the colonial power’s methods of control as well as the French colonial mission. The country of Algeria is located in North Africa along the Mediterranean coast. The capital is Algiers and the country maintains a population

social and political change during decolonization that heavily effected French society- and still does to this day. This is mainly from Algeria, one of the largest colonies of the French empire, and a prime example of the poor handling of decolonization. France attempted to hold onto two former empirical possessions during decolonization, namely Indochina and Algeria. (Wall) Although the Indochina war did have an effect on the French, it was the Algerian independence struggle that truly changed the

4.1 Country Presentation The People 's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in North Africa and on the Mediterranean coast. Its capital Algiers, is the most populous city in the country. With a total area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi) with 90% of desert, Algeria is the 10th country in the world, and the largest in Africa. The country is bordered in the northeast by Tunisia, in the east by Libya, in the west by Morocco, in the southwest by Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Mali

repressed by the police and the army French that an interim balance resulted in the death or disappearance of nearly 45,000 Algerians. This conflict was marked for always in the conscience of Algeria being considered since then as a "genocide" calling for the immediate "Jihad" or holy war against the infidel invader. The "insurrection of Constitution" is the first stage more bloodily in the history of the Algerian national movement. Not only the OAS opposed de Gaulle, but also the Spanish Government

Moreover, the region of the Sahel, like anywhere else on the African continent, had territorial borders penciled in with only the welfares of the colonizing countries in mind and not according to the national unity of the peoples concerned. In the meantime during the early 1960s, these frontiers have been the foundation for international recognition of sovereign states in the region. To avoid weakening these newly formed states, the African Union (AU), and “the Organization of African Unity (OAU)