Post-war Algerian moderation under Bendjedid prioritized domestic economics over foreign posturing

Evidence

Under Bendjedid, Algeria ceased adopting extreme postures in the outside world (and particularly in Middle East politics) in favour of concentrating on domestic matters. The grandiose (and sometimes disastrous) industrial projects launched under Boumedienne gave way to consumer goods. In 1984, Algiers itself throbbed with vast and apparently insoluble traffic jams, that Western index of prosperity. The young were well clothed, and there were no signs of the terrible malnutrition rampant south of the Sahara. But, in a nation with bursting population explosion where the average age was 19, economic problems remained menacing. High price structures made it difficult to sell Algerian natural gas on glutted world markets; as in so many emerging countries, a rich agriculture had been nearly ruined by early collectivisation and was only gradually being rectified by opening to private enterprise. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1681

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of post-revolutionary states moderating ideology once consolidating power, parallel to earlier chapters on Boumedienne’s regime. — connects to: Interdependence forced reconciliation between France and Algeria despite violence. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1663; Algeria’s anti-Israel confrontation is a media construct for domestic consumption — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 83

Related

• Economic problems threatened even a visibly prosperous 1980s Algeria (similarity 0.85)
• Wartime Algeria’s traits persisted in Boumedienne’s postwar single-party dictatorship. (similarity 0.83)
• Post-independence Algeria’s influence abroad hid internal corruption and economic collapse. (similarity 0.83)
• Post-independence Algeria’s economic planning badly damaged its agriculture and trade. (similarity 0.83)
• Boumedienne’s Algeria combined revolutionary foreign image with conservative Islamic domestic society. (similarity 0.82)
• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (similarity 0.82)
• Post-independence Arabization made French integrationist dreams seem never realistically possible (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.80)
• Boumedienne’s Algeria rejected the personality cult common in postcolonial Arab states (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious. (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.79)
• Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French (similarity 0.78)
• Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments (similarity 0.78)
• Algeria hosted several simultaneous revolutions on distinct levels (similarity 0.78)
• Algeria’s anti-Israel confrontation is a media construct for domestic consumption (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Interdependence forced reconciliation between France and Algeria despite violence. #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1663