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

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. Review "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, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School "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, Georgetown University "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, University Institute General Gutiérrez Mellado-UNED About the Author David García Cantalapiedra is professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.