Governance and Intervention in Mali: Elusive Security

This book provides the historical and political context for the security interventions in Mali over the past three decades.

The work contextualizes external military engagement (including that of the United States, France, the United Nations and G5 Sahel) within the broader framework of weak democratic consolidation, unmet development goals and increasing popular perceptions of widespread corruption in Mali. Over the past three decades, there have been four military coups in Mali: the milita...