Despite a growing interest in transit migration and border controls along migration routes,
there is relatively little work on the production and operation of the category of 'transit'itself …

Borders are not just lines in the sand, but increasingly globalised spaces of practice. This is
the case in West Africa, where a growing range of local and international officials are …

Recent work on borders has tended to overlook border control actors, practices and
rationalities in West Africa. States in this region are considered origin and transit countries …

Since 2011, the Arab world has seen a number of autocrats, including leaders from Tunisia,
Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, fall from power. Yet, in the wake of these political upheavals, only …

Morocco and Mauritania's regimes differ radically in their political structures and
contemporary histories, yet they employed several similar strategies to secure survival …

Inspired by recent studies about the effects of coups on future regime trajectories, the article
examines the conduct of praetorian armies in electoral contests that occur in the aftermath of …

Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
In some, jihadi Salafi organizations have established home bases and turned into …

The paper examines the evolution and the contemporary state of civil-military relations in the
francophone Sahel (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal). In a first …

It is hardly possible to overstate the influence of the armed forces in the francophone Sahel.
Following independence from France, five out of the six Sahelian countries experienced …

The rise of Islamism following the Arab Spring has renewed interest in the democratic
credibility of Islamist parties and movements. Focusing on the case of Mauritania's Islamists …