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Published in: openSecurityMali's reconciliation attempt
With a UN peacekeeping force soon to be deployed to Mali, what are the prospects for the recently created Dialogue...
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Published in: HomeAQIM: Maghreb to Mali, and back
The crisis in Mali highlights the distinctive character and trajectory of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. A group...
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Published in: openSecurityThe desert's fertile soil: threats of instability still growing in the north
Claims of a French victory in Mali assume that groups aimed at an Islamic state. But western intervention in another...
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Published in: HomeThe Mali effect
Many evolving disputes in north Africa and the Sahara fuse religious language and political impulse to powerful...
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Published in: HomeMali, and remote-control war
The Afghan model of future war based on armed-drones and special-forces is being refined in Mali. But the western...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
February 17 is the anniversary of the Day of Rage in Benghazi which kicked off the Libyan Revolution in 2011. But...
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Published in: HomeEurope needs principles for intervention
Why is Denmark involved in Mali? European leaders should clarify when, why and how to participate in military...
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Published in: openSecurityConflict at the EU's southern borders: the Sahel crisis
Gradually, EU systems of governance have extended into the southern Mediterranean, linking dynamics in the Sahel...
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Published in: HomeMali, war after war
The combination of western advance and rebel retreat in northern Mali echoes the initial phase of the anti-Taliban...
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Published in: HomeAlgeria, Mali: another front in the “Global War on Terror”?
What the Islamist terrorist threat has become is an incoherent pretext to intervene militarily on the part of the...
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Published in: HomeMali, and the al-Qaida trap
A decade ago, western leaders' excessive reaction and inflated rhetoric served to amplify rather than diminish the...
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Published in: HomeAh la Françafrique!
The present crisis raises a number of crucial questions, for France, Mali, the EU and our globalised world.
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Published in: HomeAlgeria, Mali and beyond
The seizure of an international gas-plant in Algeria follows closely the escalation of conflict in Mali. The...
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Published in: HomeMali, dynamic of war
The French-led military intervention in Mali both accelerates the war in the west African country and transforms its...
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Published in: HomeAl-Qaida, idea in motion
The United States's "remote control" campaign against Islamist targets is intensifying. But behind the headlines,...
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Published in: HomeQatar intervening in northern Mali?
If the presence of Qatar in Mali is confirmed, it is difficult to establish how the emirate is trying to change the...
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Published in: HomeMali, preparing for war
Mali's army will be unable to dislodge the Islamist hold on the country's north, even with the help of fellow west...
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Published in: HomeMali, and the next war
The growing prospect of western-backed military intervention to reverse the spread of Islamism in west Africa is...
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Published in: HomeSyria, Mali, Nigeria: war's paralysis
The conflict in Syria leaves western powers with no good choices, and their agony is intensified by Islamist...
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Published in: HomeChaos in the Sahel
The wider regional Islamist threat from the GSPC/AQIM appeared to be minimal in the past (except to Mali, Niger and...