The Algerian drama: consequences of a bureaucratic-socialist experiment

Jacques Fontanel () and Fanny Coulomb ()
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble
Fanny Coulomb: IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble, CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

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Abstract: Since its independence, Algeria has exerted an important influence in the international community, advocating since the late 1970s the establishment of a New International Economic Order. In order to avoid the effects of "imperialist" domination, Algeria conducted a self-centred policy, but this was more of a declarative order than a discourse of reality. The idea of a fight against colonialist capitalism led to close ties with the Soviet Union, which posed some major problems for the implementation of its own centralized planning when setting up a transition economy in Russia. Algeria has an important economic potential, but it is still dependent on its energy resources, the production of which fluctuates according to the political crises of a Nation, strongly controlled by the army, always close to internal conflicts, even civil war.

Keywords: Algeria; Socialism; Russia; imperialism; oil; civil war; economic crisis; Algérie; Socialisme; Russie; impérialisme; pétrole; guerre civile; crise économique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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Published in Jurgen Brauer; Keith Hartley. The Economics of regional Security. NATO, The Mediterranean, and Southern Africa, Harwood Academic Publishers; Routledge, pp.167-189, 2000, 9781138012257

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