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 -- Introduction: State and Society in Transition -- Transition to Democracy in Algeria -- Privatization and Democratization in Algeria -- Algeria and the Politics of Energy-Based Industrialization -- Economic Liberalization in the 1980s: Algeria in Comparative Perspective -- Agricultural Policies and the Growing Food Security Crisis -- Algerian Women Since Independence -- Islamism and Feminism: Algeria's "Rites of Passage" to Democracy -- French-Algerian Relations, 1980-1990 -- Algerian Foreign Policy in Transition

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 -- Introduction: State and Society in Transition -- Transition to Democracy in Algeria -- Privatization and Democratization in Algeria -- Algeria and the Politics of Energy-Based Industrialization -- Economic Liberalization in the 1980s: Algeria in Comparative Perspective -- Agricultural Policies and the Growing Food Security Crisis -- Algerian Women Since Independence -- Islamism and Feminism: Algeria's "Rites of Passage" to Democracy -- French-Algerian Relations, 1980-1990 -- Algerian Foreign Policy in Transition

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 -- Introduction: State and Society in Transition -- Transition to Democracy in Algeria -- Privatization and Democratization in Algeria -- Algeria and the Politics of Energy-Based Industrialization -- Economic Liberalization in the 1980s: Algeria in Comparative Perspective -- Agricultural Policies and the Growing Food Security Crisis -- Algerian Women Since Independence -- Islamism and Feminism: Algeria's "Rites of Passage" to Democracy -- French-Algerian Relations, 1980-1990 -- Algerian Foreign Policy in Transition