The Algerian Civil War, 1990-1998 / Luis Martínez ; with a preface by John P. Entelis ; translated from the French by Jonathan Derrick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Map of Algiers and its surroundings xxi -- The myth of the 'Black Decade' (1979-91): the economic and social 'crisis' 2 -- The failure of the 'imitation state' 5 -- Our hypothesis: a war-oriented imaginaire 7 -- Corsairs, Caids, 'Colonels' and 'Emirs': the changing face of the political bandit 10 -- The maquis as the school of power 14 -- Civil war as an economic and political choice 15 -- Part I. The Shaping of the Civil War -- Chapter 2. Social and Political Changes 23 -- The FIS's economic partners in local government (1990-91) 23 -- Hadj Sadok, suburban military entrepreneur 26 -- New players on the political stage 33 -- The devout activists' agenda 37 -- The Islamist passion 39 -- Chapter 3. A Revolutionary Situation 48 -- Conditions favouring Islamist dissidence 48 -- Indignation 55 -- Waiting for the avenger 60 -- Arguments based on outside events 63 -- The maquis: centre of armed resistance 68 -- Chapter 4. Descent into War 72 -- The politics of chaos 73 -- The intoxication of violence 76 -- Liberated areas 82 -- The suburban jihad seen from the countryside 84 -- Part II. The Mainsprings of Civil War -- Chapter 5. The War Logic of the Islamist Armed Bands 94 -- The 'Emir' and the model of the military entrepreneur 94 -- Portrait of an 'Emir': Said the sheet-metal worker 96 -- Fascination and respect for the Emirs 98 -- How the 'Emirates' were run 100 -- Economic determinants of the GIA's consolidation 106 -- Wasting the FIS electoral capital 111 -- The ambiguity of 'total war' 116 -- Chapter 6. New Ways to Make Big Money 119 -- The other side of privatisation: destruction of the state sector 119 -- The eminent citizen and the guerrillas 126 -- Lucrative new business opportunities 133 -- The Emirs: 'moudjahidin by trade' 137 -- From armed groups to import/export companies 144 -- Chapter 7. The Security Policy 147 -- Creation of a special anti-guerrilla army corps 148 -- Modernising the apparatus of repression 155 -- Psychological warfare and political jobs 157 -- The army, number-one state enterprise 161 -- Part III. Consolidation of the War -- Chapter 8. War Economy and Political Dynamics 171 -- Consolidation of the regime 171 -- International aid and redrawing of the political landscape 179 -- The trade economy and assimilation of the Islamists 184 -- A common political imaginaire 190 -- Chapter 9. Islamist Guerrilla Ideology and Strategy 197 -- The political guerrillas 198 -- The revolutionary guerrillas 206 -- The struggle for monopoly of the jihad 212 -- The development of the guerrilla campaign 215 -- The illusion of re-enacting the War of Liberation 218 -- Chapter 10. Back to the Beyliks 220 -- The politics of 'depoliticisation': the authoritarian illusion 221 -- Exploitation of the civil war 227 -- Military and guerrillas in the pursuit of war 231 -- From war economy to peace economy 234 -- What ways out of the civil war? 240 -- Neither side can win 245 -- War and social change 247 -- A long war ahead? 249 -- From a war-oriented to a democratic imaginaire 250.