Disentangling the security traffic jam in the Sahel: constitutive effects of contemporary interventionism.
Despite years of ongoing interventions by multiple external and regional actors, the security situation in west Africa's Sahel region is dramatically deteriorating. In this introduction to the special section of the July 2020 issue of International Affairs , we zoom in on four major external interna...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 96; no. 4; pp. 855 - 875 |
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