Waging war on terror: The implications of America's ‘New Imperialism’ for Saharan peoples

Keenan, Jeremy

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“…Keenan's (2005Keenan's ( , 2006 references are similarly scanty. 14 Sahelian terrorism and West African oil are often explicitly linked in discourse on US strategy towards Africa; however, this generally serves the purpose of lending greater urgency to US strategies in littoral, rather than Sahelian, West Africa.…”

Section: Discursive Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 92%

Actually Existing Security: The Political Economy of the Saharan Threat

Lacher¹

2008

Security Dialogue

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The transformation of Saharan populations into an object of global security is analysed as a specific instance of security's expansion globally, as well as of its merger with development, understood as a side-effect of the former. It is shown that the search for threats in the Sahara, and the establishment of surveillance apparatuses, is a precondition for the detection and discursive production of these threats. Security, through its production of knowledge, manages to objectify what had hitherto constituted a borderland of knowledge and government. The securitization of the Sahara and its populations creates a field of intervention for diverse agents of security and development. However, it does so not as part of a coherent global regime of control, but on its own specific and random terms, within a political economy of danger that is the product of discursive and material struggles. The securitization of the Sahara, it is argued, should be seen as actually existing security — that is, a complex of security practices serving diverse interests, with contradictory and open-ended outcomes.

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Section: Discursive Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 92%

Actually Existing Security: The Political Economy of the Saharan Threat

Lacher¹

2008

Security Dialogue

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“…30 Again, this has not led to replacement, but rather to a wider range of potential choice, making Arabs' claims to encompassment more doubtful. 32 For discussions of this, see, for instance, Keenan (2005) and Lecocq and Schrijver (2007). 31 In Western scholarship, there has been much debate over the real impact of 'radical Islam' in the area, most of which seem to imply that radical political Islam is an irresistible ideology, and that it is fundamentally at odds with the more 'tolerant' kind of Islam generally seen to be practiced in West Africa.…”

Section: Questions Of Orthodoxy On the Algero-malian Bordermentioning

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Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds

Марсден¹,

Retsikas²

2013

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“…According to this view, the United States connived with the Algerian intelligence services to fabricate the Al-Qaeda threat in the Sahara. 55 While these assertions are hard to prove, it is clear that there is a great deal more security cooperation between the United States and the authoritarian regimes of the region than was formerly the case; according to US officials, this is 'the new front in the global fight against terrorism', an analysis that provides the rationale for the various programmes and instruments mentioned above.…”

Section: From Democratization To Securitization: Us Security Policy Imentioning

confidence: 99%

The United States and Maghreb-Sahel security

Zoubir

2009

International Affairs

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Although the Maghreb has never been a priority, it now represents a region of significant interest for the United States. The importance of the Maghreb, and its Sahel extension, springs first from political and economic/energy interests, and second, from military, strategic and security concerns. The first relates to America's energy needs in the region, as well as to the regionalization that could create a potentially lucrative market for US businesses, especially since competition with China has increased over its recent gains in Africa. The second motivation, linked to the first, stems from Washington's new strategy and security policies initiated since 9/11 which have heightened the need for a new type of management concerning security, Islamism, terrorism, and, for a time, democratization. Unquestionably, the problems of terrorism, illegal migration, and other illegal activities are symptoms which cannot be understood if they are disconnected from their causes. However, rather than promoting economic development and good governance, the United States has focused predominantly on hard security matters and established a security system in the region which has continued under the Obama administration. Furthermore, Washington has not so far distanced itself from the regimes in the region whose authoritarianism, mismanagement of the economy, and violation of civil liberties is precisely what brought about the ills from which the Maghreb–Sahel suffers. Without addressing these issues therefore, there is little chance that the region will witness long‐lasting peace, security, and prosperity. Furthermore, the protracted conflict in the Western Sahara, the resolution of which has been impeded by the geopolitical considerations of outside powers, has not only hindered the necessary construction of an integrated Maghreb, but also has the potential of leading to regional conflict.

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Waging war on terror: The implications of America's ‘New Imperialism’ for Saharan peoples

Cited by 30 publications

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Actually Existing Security: The Political Economy of the Saharan Threat

Actually Existing Security: The Political Economy of the Saharan Threat

Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds

The United States and Maghreb-Sahel security

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