How the Arab Uprisings changed perceptions about contemporary Algeria

The protests and uprisings known as ”the Arab Spring”, which transformed power configuration in the Arab World in 2011, provoked few changes in Algeria’s domestic and foreign policy. In a blog piece published by London School of Economic’s Middle East Department, DIIS Senior Reseracher Rasmus Alenius Boserup argues that the rapid transformations of the domestic order in neighbouring Arab countries would however prompt experts, scholars and policy makers to raise a series of overdue questions about the very nature of governance and the composition of society in Algeria. As the conflicts evolved into the Sahel, he furthermore argues, that scholars also started investigating more profound questions about the reconfiguration of Algeria’s security and foreing policy towrads its southern neighbourhood region.