Jihadism in North Africa: A House of Many Mansions

Jean-Pierre Filiu (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

The 2011 Arab uprisings began in North Africa and toppled the leaders of Tunisia and Libya, but the forces that wreaked this profound change also touched their fellow Maghreb states of Algeria and Morocco. This Adelphi book examines how the politics, security and economies – which were largely stable for decades prior to 2011 – have changed in the four states. It asks why the popular revolutions in Tunisia and Libya did not spread to Algeria and Morocco; how the revolutionary states have fared since 2011; why Libya descended into a deadly civil war while the others did not; and whether the sitting governments in Algeria and Morocco have applied sustainable strategies to address the new political climate.

Keywords: Jihadism; North Africa

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Political science

Jean-Pierre Filiu. Jihadism in North Africa: A House of Many Mansions. Adelphi Series, 2015, 55 (452), pp.97 - 112. ⟨10.1080/19445571.2015.1114759⟩. ⟨hal-03470033⟩