Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. MENA and World Oil Markets -- Chapter 3. Resource Curse and Institutions -- Chapter 4. Democracy in MENA -- Chapter 5. MENA and Alternative Sources of Energy -- Chapter 6. Reducing the Demand for Oil -- Chapter 7. The Population Threat -- Chapter 8. Why the...

In October 1988, Algeria went through the autumn of its own discontent and yet more than two decades later, the country is still ruled by the "old guard", namely the veterans of the war of independence. This paper examines the reasons Algeria has resisted the winds of change blowing through the...