Friday, February 25, 2011

How To Learn To Suck Your Own Dick

When Algeria was a "dragon in the Mediterranean, Libya an "emirate" in Iraq and "the rising military power" of the Arab world

Luis Martinez
Violence oil revenues. Algeria - Libya - Iraq
Paris, Presses de Science Po, 2010. 229 pages, 11 x 18 cm, softcover. - 9782724611625

In the 1970s, with oil revenues, Algeria, Libya and Iraq seemed engaged in a process of accelerated modernization. Oil was the blessing that would allow these States to make up their lagging economy.
Algeria was a "dragon in the Mediterranean, Libya an" emirate "in Iraq and" the rising military power "of the Arab world. In political terms, socialism Progressive left thinking that profound changes were taking place: the empowerment of women, urbanization, education, increased life expectancy ...
few decades later, the disappointment was cruel. The feeling of wealth led the country in experiments or political stalemate, economic and military disastrous consequences of which they are still struggling out.
How has all this been possible? These countries can they do without profound reforms without risk of social explosion? The EU can export its standards and values and protect its natural gas supplies? The first paper on the subject.

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