The Greater Maghreb: Hybrid Threats, Challenges and Strategy for Europe

by David Garcia Cantalapiedra Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Editor), Aurora Ganz (Contribution by), Carolina Sampo (Contribution by), Gustavo Diaz (Contribution by), Julia Pulido (Contribution by)

Overview

This book represents a different approach in the study of the Sahel region in North Africa. Due to the hybrid security threats sweeping across the area, the whole region becomes a new security complex different from Middle East and more related to Western and Central Africa developments, including the impact of drug-trafficking coming from Latin America. This book discusses how the Transnational Organized Crime-Terrorism Nexus has created a very different dynamics from Middle East’s, hitting hard to people, societies and states there. The contributors argue that the countries in the area and the European Union should recognize this new complex and respond properly and differently to this situation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498588409
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	09/18/2019
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

David García Cantalapiedra is professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Table of Contents

1.The Greater Maghreb, the European Union and the 2016 EUGS.

David García Cantalapiedra

2. Terrorist groups and dynamics in the Greater Maghreb.

Ruben Herrero de Castro and Nieva Machín 'sés

3. Jihadist Terrorism, Intelligence and the European Union.

Gustavo Diaz

4. Organized Crime networks in the Greater Maghreb: impact and synergies with Terrorist groups.

Raquel Barras Tejudo

5. Criminal Insurgency. A suitable concept for the security dynamics in the Greater Maghreb?

Julia Pulido

6. Latin-American drug trafficking and impact in West Africa and Sahel

Carolina Sampo

7. The special case of Libya: spreading instability throughout Mediterranean

Soledad Segoviano

8. Immigration, policies and impact in Europe.

Aurora Ganz

Editorial Reviews

The Greater Maghreb appears to be as much a promising concept for the study of the North Africa and Sahel region as the Mackinder and Spykman inspired concepts of the Greater Middle East and the Greater Central Asia. If these described mainly a theatre of operations for the US, the Greater Maghreb is not a geopolitical and strategic response to other powers, but a useful and self-critical EU approach to the region from where the main threats and challenges to Europe are coming.

Natividad Fernández-Sola

Drug trafficking, terrorism, criminal insurgency, hybrid warfare, refugees, and climate change trouble the Greater Maghreb, the area stretching across North Africa and the Sahel. David Garcia Cantalapiedra and a group of experts explain how these threats interact across Europe’s southern security flank, challenging the European Union and the states in the region. This outstanding collection of essays explains why the Greater Maghreb might just be ground zero when it comes to today’s most pressing security issues.

James J. Wirtz

The Greater Maghreb: Hybrid Threats, Challenges and Strategy for Europe provides an excellent updated and in-depth analysis of the southern neighborhood of Europe: the Maghreb-Sahel region, where most of the actual dangers, risks, and threats remain concentrated.

Carlos Echeverría Jesús

Drug trafficking, terrorism, criminal insurgency, hybrid warfare, refugees, and climate change trouble the Greater Maghreb, the area stretching across North Africa and the Sahel. David Garcia Cantalapiedra and a group of experts explain how these threats interact across Europe’s southern security flank, challenging the European Union and the states in the region. This outstanding collection of essays explains why the Greater Maghreb might just be ground zero when it comes to today’s most pressing security issues.

Jim Wirtz

The Greater Maghreb appears to be as much a promising concept for the study of the North Africa and Sahel region as the Mackinder and Spykman inspired concepts of the Greater Middle East and the Greater Central Asia.  If these described mainly a theatre of operations for the US, the Greater Maghreb is not a geopolitical and strategic response to other powers, but a useful and self-critical EU approach to the region from where the main threats and challenges to Europe are coming.

Natividad Fernández-Sola

The Greater Maghreb: Hybrid Threats, Challenges and Strategy for Europe provides an excellent updated and in-depth analysis of the southern neighborhood of Europe: the Maghreb-Sahel region, where most of the actual dangers, risks, and threats remain concentrated.

Carlos Echeverría Jesús