This paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods,
and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US $133 billion per year and equivalent to 5 …

Following the 2013 French military intervention in Mali, significant attention has been paid to
issues of security and development in the Sahel. The stability of Sahelian countries and the …

Some Arab countries have since 2011 experienced intense security market diversification
with considerable outsourcing of domestic security and guarding services. To date, scholars …

This chapter introduces the book volume by discussing key conceptual and theoretical
issues around intra-Africa migrations and the issue of reimaging borders and recalibrating …

Boomtown (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001). 5. By locating its cases in
North Africa, this book also aims to close a gap by expanding debates on African …

This chapter explores the impact of geopolitical conflicts and interests on migration and
governance in Africa, and more specifically, Morocco and Algeria. It explores the impact of …

This chapter compares emerging cross-border dynamics in two micro-regions, Tunisia's
southeastern border and northern Mali, characterized by several elements that point to the …

As a subfield of International Relations, regional studies have historically tended to consider
regions as a'meso'level lying between the international system and the domestic arena, ¹ an …

Abstract Since the 2010-2011 uprisings, several Arab countries have witnessed
considerable reconfiguration of their market for force. Alongside continuous reshuffle and …