Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine <br/><br/>
The French policy in the Sahel: A military obsession 

 -  2019.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> This article analyses France’s security policy in the Western part of the Sahel and Sahara, from Tchad to Mauritania. It shows that it lies on three principles: an overestimated importance of Islam in the production of revolts that are qualified of jihadists; a very military vision of gigantic interconnected spaces; an assimilation of the war on terrorism to war on poverty and illegal emigration.