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Though members of Algerian militias have been demobilized or integrated into state institutions, there is grumbling.
The current trend in U.S. and European governments to pay less attention to human rights issues in Arab countries did not develop overnight, and is unlikely to disappear quickly, as it is connected to local, regional, and global trends.
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
Arab armed forces are recruiting more females, who nevertheless continue to face a glass ceiling.
Algeria’s president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has been dismissing high-profile security officials at an unprecedented rate without any public explanation from Bouteflika or his inner circle.
Many children of jihadis in Algeria are being denied an identity, education, and much more.
Despite variances in threat intensity and risk, challenges loom across the Maghreb. The specter of jihadism may haunt North Africa for a long time.
Why Algeria’s opposition parties have lost all credibility and cannot mobilize society.
Rather than making North Africa safer, securitizing borders has raised the risk of instability along the region’s frontiers, where communities depend on smuggling.
Algerian females have access to public space, but in controlled, restricted, and conditional ways.
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