Analysis: How Algeria came to treat the UAE as a national security threat

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The rupture with Abu Dhabi followed a gradual shift in which disputes once managed separately were reframed in Algiers as parts of the same sovereignty and national-security problem Algeria’s decision to sever diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates on Thursday cannot be explained simply by adding together disagreements over Western Sahara, Israel, Libya and the Sahel. Most of those disagreements had existed for years. What changed was the relationship between them. Issues that Algier