Setting Priorities: Algeria’s Foreign Policy and Opportunities for Moscow

... sub-region. In the meantime, as the well-known Algerian international scholar Oammar Bahzouz notes , the national leadership had to find a balance after 2011 between the need to ensure its own security and the need to “play an important role in the Maghreb-Sahelian arena that would be consistent with its status as a regional power.” In search of this balance, initially, in the 2010s, the Algerians made only limited efforts in the southern direction, agreeing to act there in parallel with other external ...