{"product_id":"securitizing-the-sahel-1","title":"Securitizing the Sahel","description":"The Sahel has become a focal point of international security interventions, with external actors providing extensive security force assistance (SFA) to local military, police, and paramilitary forces. Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences critically examines the rationale, implementation, and consequences of these efforts (2012-2024). With unique access to both military operations and strategy-making in European capitals, the author provides an innovative methodological approach, exclusive material, and a comprehensive perspective. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, including participant observation of military operations and over 100 interviews with policymakers, military personnel, and security practitioners across the Sahel and Europe,this book offers an unprecedented analysis of how SFA has shaped local security dynamics and broader geopolitical competition.\n\nThe book argues that SFA in the Sahel is driven not just by regional security threats, such as insurgency, violent extremism, and transnational crime, but also by external actors' strategic interests. Through a comparative analysis of bilateral (France, U.S.) and multilateral (EU, UN) initiatives, it demonstrates how SFA has been framed as the primary policy tool to manage instability. Securitizing the Sahel offers both theoretical and empirical contributions to understanding SFA in fragile states. It challenges prevailing frameworks, provides critical insights for policymakers, and highlights the unintended consequences of militarized external assistance in the Sahel and beyond.\n\nOxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations is a series for scholars \nand students working on African politics and International Relations and related \ndisciplines. Volumes concentrate on contemporary developments in African political \nscience, political economy, and International Relations, such as electoral politics, \ndemocratization, decentralization, gender and political representation, the political \nimpact of natural resources, the dynamics and consequences of conflict, comparative \npolitical thought, and the nature of the continent's engagement with the East and \nWest. Comparative and mixed methods work is particularly encouraged. Case studies \nare welcomed but should demonstrate the broader theoretical and empirical \nimplications of the study and its wider relevance to contemporary debates. The focus \nof the series is on sub-Saharan Africa, although proposals that explain how the region \nengages with North Africa and other parts of the world are of interest. \n\nSeries Editors: Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham), Peace Medie (University of Bristol), and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Sciences Po, Paris).","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55571690520920,"sku":"9780198980667","price":131.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780198980667.jpg?v=1777988764","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/securitizing-the-sahel-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}