Anouar Boukhars
Biographic Data
| ID | 4386308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anouar Boukhars |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anouar |
| FAMILY NAME | Boukhars |
| SIGNATURE | BOUKHARS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilberforce University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Comparative Perspectives on Linkages between Violent Extremism and Organized Crime in Africa
Complex linkages between violent extremist and organized criminal groups are a defining feature of contemporary African security. As comparisons across the Sahel-Sahara, Lake Chad Basin, and Horn of Africa attest, the interactions of these groups vary in terms of how intentional, proactive, and formal they are, and how much they develop on the organizational or individual level. These realities, which express themselves differently across context…
Salafism in the Maghreb
This volume explores the growth and transformation of a particular variant of Islamism—Salafism—in the Maghreb region. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and from previous scholarship on Salafi typologies—specifically, quietist, political, and jihadist variants—it seeks to understand the socioeconomic and political drivers between the growth or diminishing of each trend. The volume pays particular attention to exploring how state-sponsored Salafists …
Reassessing the power of regional security providers
The concept of power and the ways to measure it are central to the literature on regional security providers. The predominant model has power rooted in material capabilities. This article recognizes that such capabilities are important but contends that for a state to be become a regional security provider, it must meet certain preconditions, foremost amongst them: possession of necessary material and ideational capacity; judicious employment of …
The fragility of elite settlements in Tunisia
Six years after the revolution that ousted Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia remains in flux. On the face of it, the country should be celebrated for transitioning from political ferment to consensual normalcy. Unfortunately, there is more to Tunisia’s transition to consensual politics than meets the eye. The country is still caught in a turbulent grey zone where strong authoritarian tendencies threaten to pull down the country’s tortuous march to…
Perilous Desert
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises. This insecurity raises urgent concerns for the broader Sahara and the …
The Drivers of Insecurity in Mauritania
Simmering Discontent in the Western Sahara
Perilous Desert
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises. This insecurity raises urgent concerns for the broader Sahara and the …
Trouble in the Western Sahara
Based on multiple trips to the Western Sahara and dozens of interviews, this article describes the perils of the persistence of the Western Sahara conflict and analyzes the destabilizing forces that heighten local tensions and regional instability. Given the region's proximity to other ungoverned areas and theaters of conflict in the Sahel, the Western Sahara dispute poses a direct threat to regional and international security. North Africa alrea…
Islam, Jihadism, and Depoliticization in France and Germany
Pressures from within (Islam) and without (globalization and European integration) have made Germans and the French feel apprehensive about their national identity and culture. Both countries are visibly struggling to defuse the potentially explosive mix of nationalism and fear of the Muslim “stranger,” while defining citizenship for their marginalized and disenfranchised immigrants. The issue is no longer the building of “defensive citadels” of …
Reassessing the power of regional security providers
The concept of power and the ways to measure it are central to the literature on regional security providers. The predominant model has power rooted in material capabilities. This article recognizes that such capabilities are important but contends that for a state to be become a regional security provider, it must meet certain preconditions, foremost amongst them: possession of necessary material and ideational capacity; judicious employment of …
Islam, Jihadism, and Depoliticization in France and Germany
Pressures from within (Islam) and without (globalization and European integration) have made Germans and the French feel apprehensive about their national identity and culture. Both countries are visibly struggling to defuse the potentially explosive mix of nationalism and fear of the Muslim “stranger,” while defining citizenship for their marginalized and disenfranchised immigrants. The issue is no longer the building of “defensive citadels” of …
The fragility of elite settlements in Tunisia
Six years after the revolution that ousted Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia remains in flux. On the face of it, the country should be celebrated for transitioning from political ferment to consensual normalcy. Unfortunately, there is more to Tunisia’s transition to consensual politics than meets the eye. The country is still caught in a turbulent grey zone where strong authoritarian tendencies threaten to pull down the country’s tortuous march to…
Trouble in the Western Sahara
Based on multiple trips to the Western Sahara and dozens of interviews, this article describes the perils of the persistence of the Western Sahara conflict and analyzes the destabilizing forces that heighten local tensions and regional instability. Given the region's proximity to other ungoverned areas and theaters of conflict in the Sahel, the Western Sahara dispute poses a direct threat to regional and international security. North Africa alrea…
Islam, Jihadism, and Depoliticization in France and Germany
Pressures from within (Islam) and without (globalization and European integration) have made Germans and the French feel apprehensive about their national identity and culture. Both countries are visibly struggling to defuse the potentially explosive mix of nationalism and fear of the Muslim “stranger,” while defining citizenship for their marginalized and disenfranchised immigrants. The issue is no longer the building of “defensive citadels” of …
Trouble in the Western Sahara
Based on multiple trips to the Western Sahara and dozens of interviews, this article describes the perils of the persistence of the Western Sahara conflict and analyzes the destabilizing forces that heighten local tensions and regional instability. Given the region's proximity to other ungoverned areas and theaters of conflict in the Sahel, the Western Sahara dispute poses a direct threat to regional and international security. North Africa alrea…
Perilous Desert
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises. This insecurity raises urgent concerns for the broader Sahara and the …
The Drivers of Insecurity in Mauritania
Simmering Discontent in the Western Sahara
Perilous Desert
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the region's most fragile states, exploiting widespread corruption, weak government capacity, crushing poverty, and entrenched social and ethnic tensions. The unrest spills over borders and aggravates protracted regional crises. This insecurity raises urgent concerns for the broader Sahara and the …
The fragility of elite settlements in Tunisia
Six years after the revolution that ousted Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia remains in flux. On the face of it, the country should be celebrated for transitioning from political ferment to consensual normalcy. Unfortunately, there is more to Tunisia’s transition to consensual politics than meets the eye. The country is still caught in a turbulent grey zone where strong authoritarian tendencies threaten to pull down the country’s tortuous march to…
Salafism in the Maghreb
This volume explores the growth and transformation of a particular variant of Islamism—Salafism—in the Maghreb region. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and from previous scholarship on Salafi typologies—specifically, quietist, political, and jihadist variants—it seeks to understand the socioeconomic and political drivers between the growth or diminishing of each trend. The volume pays particular attention to exploring how state-sponsored Salafists …
Reassessing the power of regional security providers
The concept of power and the ways to measure it are central to the literature on regional security providers. The predominant model has power rooted in material capabilities. This article recognizes that such capabilities are important but contends that for a state to be become a regional security provider, it must meet certain preconditions, foremost amongst them: possession of necessary material and ideational capacity; judicious employment of …
Comparative Perspectives on Linkages between Violent Extremism and Organized Crime in Africa
Complex linkages between violent extremist and organized criminal groups are a defining feature of contemporary African security. As comparisons across the Sahel-Sahara, Lake Chad Basin, and Horn of Africa attest, the interactions of these groups vary in terms of how intentional, proactive, and formal they are, and how much they develop on the organizational or individual level. These realities, which express themselves differently across context…
Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Africa (3 works)