Union College Union | Digital Works Honors Theses Student Work 6-2009 From Victims to Victimizers: The volutE ion of Modern Algerian Politics Kaitlyn O'Connor Union College - Schenectady, NY Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses Part of the Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons Recommended Citation O'Connor, Kaitlyn, "From Victims to Victimizers: The vE olution of Modern Algerian Politics" (2009). Honors Theses. 1434. https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/1434 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Work at Union | Digital Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Union | Digital Works. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. From Victims to Victimizers: The Evolution of Modern Algerian Politics By Kaitlyn O’Connor * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honors in the Department of Political Science Union College June, 2009 ABSTRACT O’CONNOR, KAITLYN From Victims to Victimizers: The Evolution of Modern Algerian Politics. Department of Political Science, June 2009. ADVISOR: Professor Michelle Angrist This thesis explores the evolution of modern Algerian politics and the transition of the Algerian government from a colonized nation to a free state. In the second half of the 20th century Algeria was plagued with war and violence from both internal and external enemies. The Algerian War for Independence and the Algerian Civil War are frequently viewed as two separate conflicts with little or no ties yet after researching the two, one can draw a large number of parallels leading to the conclusion that the actions of the French in the War for Independence were strikingly similar to those of the Algerian administration in the 1990s.