(B)ordering Hybrid Security? EU Stabilisation Practices in the Sahara-Sahel Region

Raineri, Luca; Strazzari, Francesco

doi:10.1080/17449057.2019.1640509

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“…The most striking trend is how salient these increased aid flows have become to beefing up Arab states' border controls and counter‐terrorist capacities (Raineri and Strazzari, 2019). In one of its most high‐profile external actions in recent years, the EU launched an Emergency Trust Fund for Africa with an express remit to stem migration from Africa and the Middle East.…”

Section: Politicized Strategic Aidmentioning

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EU Aid Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Politicization and its Limits

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Zihnioğlu

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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Some elements of EU assistance to the countries of MENA have become more politicized in recent years. This is largely because sharper differences of opinion have emerged over EU funds being used to limit migration and for security aims. Contestation has intensified horizontally between different EU institutions and European governments. However, this politicization varies across different policy areas and different parts of the MENA region, and in some instances remains relatively muted. After outlining the general increase in salience and wider institutional engagement; we then contrast this with the more measured increase in the third dimension of politicization, namely polarization over the EU's MENA aid policies. We offer three examples of the way that internal policy‐making dynamics have softened polarization and discuss implications for the broader analysis of EU foreign and security policy. We conclude that different kinds of dynamics both drive and limit politicization within the EU's external policies.

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Section: Politicized Strategic Aidmentioning

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EU Aid Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Politicization and its Limits

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Zihnioğlu

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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“…The EU's control over the prioritization of emergencies and the establishment of subsequent actions that support stabilization and resilience‐building might create favourable conditions for the EU to soften its normative commitment to conflict‐sensitive and security‐comprehensive approaches and to implement selective actions, including, for instance, working through ‘pragmatic channels’ with dubious local partners (Rainieri and Strazzari, 2019). A trade‐off between norms and pragmatism might soon surface, making it hard for principled pragmatism to keep both values and interests.…”

Section: Tracing the Eu's Maieutic Rolementioning

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The European Union Global Strategy and the EU's Maieutic Role^*

Giusti

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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The article suggests an exegesis of the conceptual tenets introduced by the EUGS. By focusing on the two disruptive concepts that have come forward in the documentprincipled pragmatism and resilienceit aims at unveiling the new role the EUGS allocates to the EU, especially in its neighbourhood. This recalls the Socratic maieutic method, blending the cognitive, aspirational and performative aspects suggested by principled pragmatism and resilience. Instead of spreading norms especially in its neighbourhood, the EU would rather engage selectively in a wider space, pragmatically supporting the others becoming resilient. While recognizing local agency and disowning the 'one size fits all' principle, this new role still legitimates the EU to influence the outside, although not structurally. This shift tends to de-politicize external actions, with the risk of obfuscating the question of accountability and responsibility while maintaining the capability to influence.

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“…16 A widespread perception that there is a clear link between irregular migration and these cross-border threats has profoundly influenced stabilisation efforts in the region (Fakhoury 2016; Raineri 2018a; Abebe 2019: Bøås 2020). Accordingly, Sahelian governments have received significant support from external actors to strengthen border management, migration governance and other security-related measures that restrict the cross-border movement of people (Raineri and Strazzari 2019). This has largely contributed to the securitisation of irregular migration.…”

Section: Irregular Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(Gorman 2019). Porous state borders, which for individuals may help navigate these insecurities (Shaw and Reitano 2014;UNECA 2017), are perceived as a threat by both Sahelian states and external stakeholders (Raineri 2018a;Raineri and Strazzari 2019). The fragility dilemma may therefore lead to a perceived binary opposition between the state-centric, militarised regional and the people-centric transnational security complex -and, as will be argued here, further divergence between them.…”

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The Fragility Dilemma and Divergent Security Complexes in the Sahel

Osland

Erstad

2020

The International Spectator

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Despite an exponential increase in international resources devoted to the Sahel, the situation on the ground continues to deteriorate. This is largely due to the so-called "fragility dilemma", faced by fragile states that are in critical need of external assistance, but have limited absorption capacity and are governed by sitting regimes that dictate the terms and upon which external actors must rely. This dilemma has contributed to an increasing divergence between a state-centric regional and a people-centric transnational security complex. In particular, a heavy-handed approach to violent extremism and external policies aimed at curbing irregular migration have had a number of unintended consequences, disrupting livelihoods and further exacerbating instability in the Sahelian states.

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(B)ordering Hybrid Security? EU Stabilisation Practices in the Sahara-Sahel Region

Cited by 28 publications

References 26 publications

EU Aid Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Politicization and its Limits

EU Aid Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Politicization and its Limits

The European Union Global Strategy and the EU's Maieutic Role^*

The Fragility Dilemma and Divergent Security Complexes in the Sahel

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(B)ordering Hybrid Security? EU Stabilisation Practices in the Sahara-Sahel Region

Cited by 28 publications

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EU Aid Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Politicization and its Limits

EU Aid Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Politicization and its Limits

The European Union Global Strategy and the EU's Maieutic Role*

The Fragility Dilemma and Divergent Security Complexes in the Sahel

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