Algeria drew the world’s attention for her political crisis in the late 1980s，for Islamic Salvation Front had challenged traditional political authority and sparked continuing violence. The historical root of the political crisis is as follow：firstly the transplanted development model had brought about political instability with the accumulation of modernity；secondly the national identity characterized by elite politics and nationalist narratives had been challenged；finally the collision between traditional culture and modern culture led to the lack of spiritual core in the nation-state building on this background. Algerian political crisis has failed to build a modern nation-state and to integrate traditional society and modern one.