Frederic Wehrey, Anouar Boukhars

Broschiertes Buch

Perilous Desert

Insecurity in the Sahara

Beschreibung

The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. This title details the sources of instability and what can be done to minimize the threat of simmering conflicts. It offers accounts of the changing landscape, demonstrate how foreign assistance that relies exclusively on counterterrorism will only exacerbate the problems.

Autor

Frederic Wehrey is a senior associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace focusing on security and political reform in the Gulf and North Africa. He is the author of the forthcoming book Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings (Columbia University Press). Anouar Boukhars is an assistant professor of international relations at McDaniel College, Maryland. Peter Cole is working in Libya with Small Arms Survey and was previously a senior Libya analyst at the International Crisis Group. Wolfram Lacher is a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), Berlin. Alex Thurston is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies at Northwestern University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brookings Institution
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780870034039
• ISBN-10: 0870034030
• Artikelnr.: 37263364