The Algerian Crisis of 2019 and the Second Arab Spring Uprising: A Comparative Analysis

Abstract

In 2019, Algeria was in turmoil that was reminiscent of the 2011 Arab Spring Uprising (ASU). Interest in Algeria’s unanticipated resentment is predicated on the fact that Algeria is not only the largest country in Africa but also the largest country in the Arab world and ridiculed the ASU with the impression that it will remain peaceful.  The broad objective of the study is to evaluate the Algerian Crisis of 2019 in the light of the Second Arab Spring Uprising (SASU).  To this end the study posed the following research questions: How did the military facilitate into a revolution the popular protest in Algeria? What sustained Bouteflika as President of Algeria for twenty years and why was his fifth term agenda foiled. What is the nature and causes of SASU in Algeria? The study is guided by the theoretical framework of regime theory as propounded by Stephen D. Krasner. The study concludes that the fifth term agenda of the President Bouteflika was the casus belli of the crisis in Algeria. The study recommends that genuine democratic government should be instituted in line with the agitations of the broad mass of Algerians.