ABSTRACT
In recent years, Algeria’s diplomacy was on the spotlight of the world’s media with an avalanche of analyses and comments about its foreign policy. However, any attempt to assess Algiers’ diplomacy without looking at its own internal nation-state building and historical regional alliances and affiliations would fail. Indeed, analysing Algeria’s regional and foreign policy would be incomplete without a clear review of its past, and particularly its nationalism and pan-Africanism. This chapter aims therefore at understanding Algeria’s foreign policy shaped by its own legacy of revolt, independence, and civil war. It stresses that the ongoing regional crises should not overshadow Algeria’s long-standing investments in regional peace and security.
