Special issue: rethinking challenges to state sovereignty in Mali and northwest Africa

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Title:	Special issue: rethinking challenges to state sovereignty in Mali and northwest Africa
Editors:	Whitehouse, Bruce Strazzari, Francesco
Year:	2015
Periodical:	African security (ISSN 1939-2214)
Volume:	8
Issue:	4
Pages:	213-337
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Philadelphia, PA
Publisher:	Routledge
Geographic terms:	Mali Sahel Libya
Subjects:	regional security terrorism Islamic movements
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uafs20/8/4
Abstract:	This special issue examines current challenges for regional security and state authority in northwest Africa where new threats and political instability have reached unprecedented levels in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Contributions: Introduction: rethinking challenges to state sovereignty in Mali and northwest Africa (Bruce Whitehouse, Francesco Strazzari); Securitization initiatives in the Sahara-Sahel region in the twenty-first century (Stephen Harmon); State, secession, and Jihad: the micropolitical economy of conflict in northern Mali (Luca Raineri, Francesco Strazzari); Failing at violence: the longer-lasting impact of pro-government militias in northern Mali since 2012 (Marc-André Boisvert); Crime, coping, and resistance in the Mali-Sahel periphery (Morten Bøås); Political orders in the making: emerging forms of political organization from Libya to northern Mali (Thomas Hüsken, Georg Klute). [ASC Leiden abstract]