... and the post-Gaddafi phase. It suggests that although ideology, specifically references to Islam, became crucial in the political contention between Islamists and non-Islamists, the cleavage was not entirely ideological, as both trends considered the Islamic identity of Libya central to their political...

...Mohammed Hussein Sharfi This paper looks at the Sudanese regime's foreign policy agenda and its sponsorship of radical groups in its initial years in power. It discusses the regime's revolutionary pan-Islamist ideology and the belief that Sudan should take a prominent role in Islamic revivalism...

...Mourad Bensaid; Salah Ziani This paper analyses the relationship between the elites and the ruling authority in Algeria and the influence of ideology on the development of this relationship through a study of the roles undertaken by the elites from independence to today. The Algerian elites...

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... ideologically and geopolitically under the pretence of a just revolt. The argument advanced is that there is a plan for the realignment of Syria that uses the revolt as an entrance point and a tool in this strategy – whether the Syrians engaged in revolt know it or not. The Syrian people, the Syrian government...