No Monopoly Left: How Drone Warfare Escaped Its Architects
Something is becoming impossible to ignore: wherever you look today – the skies above eastern Ukraine, the Persian Gulf, the plains of Burkina Faso – drones are reshaping the logic […]
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Security Force Assistance, Social Networks, Coups, and the Re-Ordering of Power Relations
Security Force Assistance (SFA) delivered to fragile states where external and national actors share a common enemy aims to reinforce the national military and security actors more broadly. Such assistance […]
A Crowded and Fragmented Security Landscape in Africa: Identifying Three Trends and Their Consequences
It has been more than a decade since the UN last authorized a multidimensional peacekeeping in Africa, in spite of the continent experiencing the highest number of state-based conflicts in […]
How Do Women in Niger Crush the Glass Ceiling?
Abstract Patriarchal norms across West Africa curtail women’s education and employment opportunities, with Niger standing as an extreme example. However, a small minority of Nigerien women succeed in accessing education […]
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JNIM au Mali : l’étranglement de Bamako et la stratégie du califat par consentement
Le jihadisme sahélien entre dans une phase nouvelle, dont l’onde de choc redessinera la carte de l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Le Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans (JNIM) a […]
From the Donbas to Africa: How Returning Fighters Could Fuel a New Mercenary Wave
What will happen to the thousands of militaries involved in the war between Russia and Ukraine once the war is over? Hundreds of thousands of battle-hardened soldiers from Russia’s full-scale […]