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

... civil strife and christened as the “Black Decade”. In the 2000s, the country was forced to confront the terrorist activities of AQIM only to face the challenges of the Arab Spring in the 2010s. Finally, by now, the largest country in Africa and the Arab world is surrounded by zones of political conflict, instability and tension along most of its vast (6,343 km) land border: Libya, Niger, Mali, Western Sahara. The dramatic experience in a relatively short historical period, the current difficult geopolitical situation ...