POLI 340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Abdelaziz Bouteflika, National Liberation Front (Algeria), Chadli Bendjedid

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 340
• Professor: Rex Brynen

Document Summary

French colony from 1830 1962, natives suffered discrimination, received french citizenship in 1950s. 1954-1962: war of liberation: 1956 discovery of oil in the sahara desert, 1962 country wins independence from france, and followed a socialist system (one party rule, state-controlled economy), single party regime. 1991 isla(cid:373)ists(cid:859) ele(cid:272)toral (cid:448)i(cid:272)tory i(cid:374) (cid:449)ake of (cid:862)dirty (cid:449)ar(cid:863) after atte(cid:373)pts to de(cid:373)o(cid:272)ratize. Algerian regime formed by nationalist movement post wwii: activists against french created liberation national army, supported by lower class, goals were independence, equality, fair distribution of wealth. Leader colonel houari boumediene, former chief of staff of aln / long term president. Boumediene made alliance in 1962 with ahmed ben bella; ben bella formed a government that secured one party system and state controlled economy: 1965 - boumediene overthrew ben bella one regime had stabilized. Populism arose from political culture of algeria after years of colonial resistance: boumediene claimed army carried out mission of the nationalists (borrowed from nasserism)