Maghreb Center Journal

The first issue of the Maghreb Center Journal is available online. It will be published on an occasional basis to shed light on current political, economic, cultural and international relations issues affecting the countries of North Africa and pertinent to today’s policy debates. Each issue will focus on a Maghrebi country or given theme. Algeria has been selected as the topic for this Spring/Summer 2010 issue.

The contributions lead off with a paper by Amel Boubekeur, from the Carnegie Middle East Center, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She offers a detailed review of the Islamist movements in Algeria and the process of their integration into the Algerian political system. This has contributed significantly to a decline in political violence, and to the stabilization of the country after years of quasi-civil war.