This book provides a diagnostic of the continuing tensions between state and society in contemporary Algeria, addressing important conceptual and policy issues from an interdisciplinary perspective and giving special emphasis to questions of political culture and political economy.

John P. Entelis is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Fordham University. His previous books include State and Society in Algeria, Pluralism and Party Transformation in Lebanon and Islam, Democracy and the State in North Africa.

Preface -- 1 Introduction: State and Society in Transition /John P. Entelis -- 2 Transition to Democracy in Algeria /Bradford Dillman -- 3 Privatization and Democratization in Algeria /Lynette Rummel -- 4 Algeria and the Politics of Energy-Based Industrialization /Philip J. Akre -- 5 Economic Liberalization in the 1980s: Algeria in Comparative Perspective /Karen Pfeifer -- 6 Agricultural Policies and the Growing Food Security Crisis /Will D. Swearingen -- 7 Algerian Women Since Independence /Peter R. Knauss -- 8 Islamism and Feminism: Algeria's "Rites of Passage" to Democracy /Boutheina Cheriet -- 9 French-Algerian Relations, 1980-1990 /Phillip C. Naylor -- 10 Algerian Foreign Policy in Transition /Robert A. Mortimer -- List of Acronyms -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index