New York- My foundational work in the very early days of the Sahelian crisis is cited in a new book by Dr. Morten Boås of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo. His forthcoming work is titled Sahel: The Perfect Storm published by Oxford University Press. The Sahel is a vast, dry expanse between the Sahara desert proper and equatorial Africa that stretches from the Atlantic coast of Mauritania in the west to Eritrea on the banks of the Red Sea in the east.
The Sahel has been a troubled geography for decades yet remained a geopolitical backwater until the collapse of the Qaddafi regime in Libya in the last quarter of 2011. This helped trigger a dual Tuareg nationalist and salafi-jihadi revolt in Mali’s under-governed north that set off a cascade of dominos destabilisng virtually the entire region in simplest terms. The Sahel has become a transnational nightmare where insurgencies can neither be contained nor constrained by linear post-colonial cartography nor its respective nation-state militaries.
I’m delighted Dr, Boås cited by research in his new book to be released on 1 November of this year.
