Arabic collection. Translation of: La guerre civile en Algérie, 1990-1998.

Map of Algiers and its surroundings --xxi -- The myth of the 'Black Decade' (1979-91): the economic and social 'crisis' -- 2 -- The failure of the 'imitation state' -- 5 -- Our hypothesis: a war-oriented imaginaire -- 7 -- Corsairs, Caids, 'Colonels' and 'Emirs': the changing face of the political bandit -- 10 -- The maquis as the school of power -- 14 -- Civil war as an economic and political choice -- 15 -- Part I. The Shaping of the Civil War -- Chapter 2. Social and Political Changes -- 23 -- The FIS's economic partners in local government (1990-91) -- 23 -- Hadj Sadok, suburban military entrepreneur -- 26 -- New players on the political stage -- 33 -- The devout activists' agenda -- 37 -- The Islamist passion -- 39 -- Chapter 3. A Revolutionary Situation -- 48 -- Conditions favouring Islamist dissidence -- 48 -- Indignation -- 55 -- Waiting for the avenger -- 60 -- Arguments based on outside events -- 63 -- The maquis: centre of armed resistance -- 68 -- Chapter 4. Descent into War -- 72 -- The politics of chaos -- 73 -- The intoxication of violence -- 76 -- Liberated areas -- 82 -- The suburban jihad seen from the countryside -- 84 -- Part II. The Mainsprings of Civil War -- Chapter 5. The War Logic of the Islamist Armed Bands -- 94 -- The 'Emir' and the model of the military entrepreneur -- 94 -- Portrait of an 'Emir': Said the sheet-metal worker -- 96 -- Fascination and respect for the Emirs -- 98 -- How the 'Emirates' were run -- 100 -- Economic determinants of the GIA's consolidation -- 106 -- Wasting the FIS electoral capital -- 111 -- The ambiguity of 'total war' -- 116 -- Chapter 6. New Ways to Make Big Money -- 119 -- The other side of privatisation: destruction of the state sector -- 119 -- The eminent citizen and the guerrillas -- 126 -- Lucrative new business opportunities -- 133 -- The Emirs: 'moudjahidin by trade' -- 137 -- From armed groups to import/export companies -- 144 -- Chapter 7. The Security Policy -- 147 -- Creation of a special anti-guerrilla army corps -- 148 -- Modernising the apparatus of repression -- 155 -- Psychological warfare and political jobs -- 157 -- The army, number-one state enterprise -- 161 -- Part III. Consolidation of the War -- Chapter 8. War Economy and Political Dynamics -- 171 -- Consolidation of the regime -- 171 -- International aid and redrawing of the political landscape -- 179 -- The trade economy and assimilation of the Islamists -- 184 -- A common political imaginaire -- 190 -- Chapter 9. Islamist Guerrilla Ideology and Strategy -- 197 -- The political guerrillas -- 198 -- The revolutionary guerrillas -- 206 -- The struggle for monopoly of the jihad -- 212 -- The development of the guerrilla campaign -- 215 -- The illusion of re-enacting the War of Liberation -- 218 -- Chapter 10. Back to the Beyliks -- 220 -- The politics of 'depoliticisation': the authoritarian illusion -- 221 -- Exploitation of the civil war -- 227 -- Military and guerrillas in the pursuit of war -- 231 -- From war economy to peace economy -- 234 -- What ways out of the civil war? -- 240 -- Neither side can win -- 245 -- War and social change -- 247 -- A long war ahead? -- 249 -- From a war-oriented to a democratic imaginaire -- 250.