NATO and the Greater Maghreb (eBook, ePUB)

Geopolitics, Threats, and Great Powers
Redaktion: Cantalapiedra, David Garcia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

NATO and the Greater Maghreb offers a distinctive focus and study of NATO's future policy in North Africa and the Sahel after the new 2022 Strategic Concept, expected to be published during the next NATO Summit in Madrid.
The book will use three main axes to frame the contributors' analysis, which are not usually used together for analyzing NATO policy: Geopolitics, Great Power Competition, and Threats. These lenses create a distinctive approach to reviewing a Greater Mahgreb Regional Security Complex confronted with the necessities of a distinctive approach by NATO.
The idea of MENA (Middle East and North Africa), still used by the EU and NATO is already obsolete for several reasons: first, it is no more possible to split West Africa geopolitically from North Africa and Sahel. Second, the action of terrorist groups such as Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, ISIS, and Boko Haram are not related to Middle East problems, nor strategies and policies necessaries to tackle them. Second, the difficulties in cooperation between these countries, the corruption fed by organized crime (above all cocaine trafficking) and the impact of desertization, makes it very difficult to establish sound strategies and policies for the area. Third, there is an increasing presence of Great Powers in the area, including Russia and China, Turkey, and some Gulf states with different goals and policies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666911336
• Artikelnr.: 65848065

Autorenporträt

David García Cantalapiedra is professor of international relations and security studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Geopolitics and Great Powers Competition
Chapter 1: NATO and the Mediterranean: From the Southern Flank to the Other
Front? by Raquel Barras Tejudo
Chapter 2: The Decline of MENA and the Rise of the Greater Maghreb Regional
Security Complex: His Impact in the 2022 NATO Strategic Concept by David
García Cantalapiedra and Raquel Barras Tejudo
Chapter 3: NATO-EU Relations in the Greater Maghreb: Turn Words into Facts
by Maribel Lopez Nieto
Chapter 4: Russian Foreign Policy in the Greater Maghreb: Implications for
Transatlantic Policy by Natividad Fernández Sola
Part II: Threats and Challenges
Chapter 5: NATO and Peacekeeping between Deterrence and Peace Enforcement:
Lessons for the Greater Maghreb by Gustavo Díaz Matey
Chapter 6: NATO and the Threat of International Terrorism: Capabilities and
Synergies, An Essay by Ruben Herrero de Castro
Chapter 7: NATO, "Hybridization", Hybrid Threats and the Greater Maghreb:
Impact and Strategy by David García Cantalapiedra
Chapter 8: NATO's Drive towards Cl