Introduction: Rethinking Challenges to State Sovereignty in Mali and Northwest Africa

Introduction: Rethinking Challenges to State Sovereignty in Mali and Northwest Africa

Author: 
Whitehouse, Bruce
Publisher: 
Taylor & Francis Group
Date published: 
2015
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Responsibility: 
Strazzari, Francesco, jt. author
Journal Title: 
African Security
Source: 
African Security, Vol. 8, Issue 4, October-December 2015, pp. 213-226
Abstract: 

In framing its analysis around the concept of northwest Africa, this article examines not only the challenges for regional security and state authority in that region but also the processes through which regions are constructed by both local and international actors. It focuses especially on northern Mali and the various types of separatist, jihadist, and criminal networks that operate in this territory. The goal of this article, and of the special issue to which it is an introduction, is to illuminate emerging political orders in northwest Africa.

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CITATION: Whitehouse, Bruce. Introduction: Rethinking Challenges to State Sovereignty in Mali and Northwest Africa . : Taylor & Francis Group , 2015. African Security, Vol. 8, Issue 4, October-December 2015, pp. 213-226 - Available at: http://library.au.int/introduction-rethinking-challenges-state-sovereignty-mali-and-northwest-africa-1