Title: Dangerous Alliances
First published: August 16, 2003
Description: This is an up-to-date and insightful account of modern politics in three crucial North African countries--Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, known together as the Maghreb. It examines the ways in which the outward forms of democratic governance can be emptied of content, specifically through a conjunction of a power-hungry leader and a quiescent civil society that allows him to wield this power.
Subjects: Civil society, Africa, north, politics and government, Political participation, Politics and government