Modern Tunisia: A Democratic Apprenticeship

by Andrew Borowiec

How did Tunisia succeed in eliminating the threat of militant Islamic fundamentalism? Borowiec examines the actions, which begin with the removal of the senile President Habib Bourguiba in 1987, known in Tunisia as the change. Today, while its next door neighbor, Algeria, is in the midst of an upheaval threatening modernization and a secular government, Tunisia is the only Muslim country to ban polygamy and to introduce state-funded contraception...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275961362
• ISBN13: 9780275961367
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"