Algerian foreign policy: from revolution to national interest

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Title:	Algerian foreign policy: from revolution to national interest
Author:	Mortimer, Robert A.
Year:	2015
Periodical:	The Journal of North African Studies (ISSN 1743-9345)
Volume:	20
Issue:	3
Pages:	466-482
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Algeria
Subjects:	foreign policy international relations
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2014.990961
Abstract:	In the immediate aftermath of independence, Algeria pursued a militant anti-imperialist policy of Third World solidarity under presidents Ahmed Ben Bella and Houari Boumediene. The 1976 National Charter sets forth the rationale for such a foreign policy which was marked by Algerian leadership in the Group of 77, the Nonaligned Movement and the effort to create a New International Economic Order in North-South relations. During the 1980s, President Chadli Benjedid gradually shifted the focus of Algerian diplomacy from Third World leadership to a regional policy focused on the Maghreb and the establishment of the Union du Maghreb Arabe. The severe internal crisis of the 1990s led to a further retrenchment of Algerian foreign policy. Despite his role in the revolutionary years, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has continued the evolution of the state's foreign policy towards national interest pragmatism. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]