Adam Sandor
Biographic Data
| ID | 637778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Sandor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandor |
| SIGNATURE | SANDOR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université du Québec à Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8429-5920 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Productive failure, African agency, and security cooperation in West Africa: The case of the G5 Sahel
This paper examines South–South security cooperation and regional organisations (ROs) in Africa. Much of the literature on peace and conflict in Africa has focused on ROs and the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). Guided by the mantra ‘African solutions to African problems’, these organisations have facilitated several instances of African-led security cooperation. Yet ROs have limited agency and capacity, are institutionally rigid, …
Grassroots Geopolitical Imaginaries in the Sahel: Civil Society Security Narratives in Burkina Faso and Niger
Recent shifts in the international security partnerships of several Sahelian countries have become a matter of fierce public debate. This article analyzes the link between geopolitical imaginaries, military-led governments, and civil society formations in Burkina Faso and Niger. It aims to explore how civil society actors in Burkina Faso and Niger co-construct different geopolitical imaginaries about security and foreign policy in the Sahel. Draw…
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger
This briefing explores the factors that led to the consolidated position of the Nigerien Security and Defence forces in support of the coup d’état launched the night of 26th July 2023. The initial blockade of the former President’s palace by the head of the Presidential Guard and 350 of its members looked like a mutiny. However, instead of moving swiftly to end the blockade, commanders from across the security forces appeared on national televisi…
Sahelistan? Military Intervention and Patronage Politics in Afghanistan and Mali
The ‘Sahelistan’ discourse that conflates conflict dynamics in Afghanistan and Mali is widespread in Western media and policy circles. We argue that such representations contribute to the adoption of one-size-fits-all conflict management policies. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in both places, we also argue that these standard templates of intervention shape responses from local non-state armed actors, who manipulate foreign interveners for their…
The power of rumour(s) in international interventions: Minusma's management of Mali's rumour mill
The work of international interventions, whether grandiose or commonplace in scale, requires credible, verified information. Nevertheless, in settings of armed conflict that interventions aim to transform, information is more often than not improvised, unofficial, fragmented and based on multiple competing imaginaries. Interventions, therefore, are significantly influenced by rumours: the circulation of information and stories based on uncertain …
Les groupes djihadistes au Mali, entre violence, recherche de légitimité et politiques locales
Particulièrement ciblés par les opérations franco-maliennes depuis 2013, les groupes djihadistes qui opèrent dans le cadre du conflit malien ont su faire preuve de résilience. Cet article discute de leur ancrage social, des liens qu’ils ont tissés avec différentes communautés et de leur influence au niveau local. Se définissant sur les territoires qu’ils contrôlent comme des arbitres et des pourvoyeurs de sécurité et biens que l’État malien défai…
Power and Comparative Methods: Performing the Worlds of Armed Conflicts
This Special Issue emphasises how power and power relations involved in establishing limits and boundaries to define, categorise and understand the world through comparison are intimately tied to conflict and intervention practices and dynamics. Indeed, when pundits, practitioners, academics and even conflict actors compare settings of armed conflict and intervention, they are participating in an inherently political move. The most off-handed of …
African security and global militarism
This Special Issue asks: what is the current place of militarism in relation to security where Africa is concerned? It aims to contribute to emerging debates interested in critical inquiry of the relation between militarism and security, and to explore its diverse articulations in African settings. We advance an international political sociological (IPS) approach to militarism in order to explore militarised security politics as a field of contes…
Security Governance and the Politics of State Transformation: Moving From Description to Explanation
A rapidly growing, self-identified scholarly subfield on “Security Governance” has recently emerged. Its signal contribution has been to explicate the expansion of security governance beyond traditional defense multilateralism to include diverse actors, networked transnationally across multiple scales. However, this literature is predominantly descriptive and evaluative. Lacking an explanatory theory, it struggles to explain security governance o…
Militarism and its limits: Sociological insights on security assemblages in the Sahel
This article assesses the concepts of militarism and militarization in relation to contemporary security interventions in the Sahel, a region increasingly understood through the prisms of violence, cross-border illicit flows, and limited statehood. This region is subject to security interventions that include French military action, EU-funded projects to prevent drug trafficking, and both bilateral and multilateral efforts against irregular migra…
Border Security and Drug Trafficking in Senegal: Aircop and global security assemblages
Transnational security governance initiatives in West Africa, operationalized through international statebuilding interventions, are altering the sub-region’s borders and border enforcement. The article employs a practice-oriented ‘global security assemblages’ approach to demonstrate how border security professionals compete over how, who, and where to secure the border from borderless threats like drug trafficking. The article demonstrates this …
Tightly Packed: Disciplinary Power, the Unodc, and the Container Control Programme in Dakar
This article uses the lens of disciplinary power to analyze the North-South relationships in efforts to govern drug trafficking in Senegal. Disciplinary surveillance shapes the activities of anti-trafficking units through repetitive examination, correction, and persuasion. These practices produce forms of resistance to the ways in which interdiction occurs, which implicate elites in the country. The result of constant international correction, an…
Militarism and its limits: Sociological insights on security assemblages in the Sahel
This article assesses the concepts of militarism and militarization in relation to contemporary security interventions in the Sahel, a region increasingly understood through the prisms of violence, cross-border illicit flows, and limited statehood. This region is subject to security interventions that include French military action, EU-funded projects to prevent drug trafficking, and both bilateral and multilateral efforts against irregular migra…
Border Security and Drug Trafficking in Senegal: Aircop and global security assemblages
Transnational security governance initiatives in West Africa, operationalized through international statebuilding interventions, are altering the sub-region’s borders and border enforcement. The article employs a practice-oriented ‘global security assemblages’ approach to demonstrate how border security professionals compete over how, who, and where to secure the border from borderless threats like drug trafficking. The article demonstrates this …
The power of rumour(s) in international interventions: Minusma's management of Mali's rumour mill
The work of international interventions, whether grandiose or commonplace in scale, requires credible, verified information. Nevertheless, in settings of armed conflict that interventions aim to transform, information is more often than not improvised, unofficial, fragmented and based on multiple competing imaginaries. Interventions, therefore, are significantly influenced by rumours: the circulation of information and stories based on uncertain …
Sahelistan? Military Intervention and Patronage Politics in Afghanistan and Mali
The ‘Sahelistan’ discourse that conflates conflict dynamics in Afghanistan and Mali is widespread in Western media and policy circles. We argue that such representations contribute to the adoption of one-size-fits-all conflict management policies. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in both places, we also argue that these standard templates of intervention shape responses from local non-state armed actors, who manipulate foreign interveners for their…
Tightly Packed: Disciplinary Power, the Unodc, and the Container Control Programme in Dakar
This article uses the lens of disciplinary power to analyze the North-South relationships in efforts to govern drug trafficking in Senegal. Disciplinary surveillance shapes the activities of anti-trafficking units through repetitive examination, correction, and persuasion. These practices produce forms of resistance to the ways in which interdiction occurs, which implicate elites in the country. The result of constant international correction, an…
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger
This briefing explores the factors that led to the consolidated position of the Nigerien Security and Defence forces in support of the coup d’état launched the night of 26th July 2023. The initial blockade of the former President’s palace by the head of the Presidential Guard and 350 of its members looked like a mutiny. However, instead of moving swiftly to end the blockade, commanders from across the security forces appeared on national televisi…
African security and global militarism
This Special Issue asks: what is the current place of militarism in relation to security where Africa is concerned? It aims to contribute to emerging debates interested in critical inquiry of the relation between militarism and security, and to explore its diverse articulations in African settings. We advance an international political sociological (IPS) approach to militarism in order to explore militarised security politics as a field of contes…
Power and Comparative Methods: Performing the Worlds of Armed Conflicts
This Special Issue emphasises how power and power relations involved in establishing limits and boundaries to define, categorise and understand the world through comparison are intimately tied to conflict and intervention practices and dynamics. Indeed, when pundits, practitioners, academics and even conflict actors compare settings of armed conflict and intervention, they are participating in an inherently political move. The most off-handed of …
Grassroots Geopolitical Imaginaries in the Sahel: Civil Society Security Narratives in Burkina Faso and Niger
Recent shifts in the international security partnerships of several Sahelian countries have become a matter of fierce public debate. This article analyzes the link between geopolitical imaginaries, military-led governments, and civil society formations in Burkina Faso and Niger. It aims to explore how civil society actors in Burkina Faso and Niger co-construct different geopolitical imaginaries about security and foreign policy in the Sahel. Draw…
Security Governance and the Politics of State Transformation: Moving From Description to Explanation
A rapidly growing, self-identified scholarly subfield on “Security Governance” has recently emerged. Its signal contribution has been to explicate the expansion of security governance beyond traditional defense multilateralism to include diverse actors, networked transnationally across multiple scales. However, this literature is predominantly descriptive and evaluative. Lacking an explanatory theory, it struggles to explain security governance o…
Border Security and Drug Trafficking in Senegal: Aircop and global security assemblages
Transnational security governance initiatives in West Africa, operationalized through international statebuilding interventions, are altering the sub-region’s borders and border enforcement. The article employs a practice-oriented ‘global security assemblages’ approach to demonstrate how border security professionals compete over how, who, and where to secure the border from borderless threats like drug trafficking. The article demonstrates this …
Tightly Packed: Disciplinary Power, the Unodc, and the Container Control Programme in Dakar
This article uses the lens of disciplinary power to analyze the North-South relationships in efforts to govern drug trafficking in Senegal. Disciplinary surveillance shapes the activities of anti-trafficking units through repetitive examination, correction, and persuasion. These practices produce forms of resistance to the ways in which interdiction occurs, which implicate elites in the country. The result of constant international correction, an…
Security Governance and the Politics of State Transformation: Moving From Description to Explanation
A rapidly growing, self-identified scholarly subfield on “Security Governance” has recently emerged. Its signal contribution has been to explicate the expansion of security governance beyond traditional defense multilateralism to include diverse actors, networked transnationally across multiple scales. However, this literature is predominantly descriptive and evaluative. Lacking an explanatory theory, it struggles to explain security governance o…
Militarism and its limits: Sociological insights on security assemblages in the Sahel
This article assesses the concepts of militarism and militarization in relation to contemporary security interventions in the Sahel, a region increasingly understood through the prisms of violence, cross-border illicit flows, and limited statehood. This region is subject to security interventions that include French military action, EU-funded projects to prevent drug trafficking, and both bilateral and multilateral efforts against irregular migra…
Les groupes djihadistes au Mali, entre violence, recherche de légitimité et politiques locales
Particulièrement ciblés par les opérations franco-maliennes depuis 2013, les groupes djihadistes qui opèrent dans le cadre du conflit malien ont su faire preuve de résilience. Cet article discute de leur ancrage social, des liens qu’ils ont tissés avec différentes communautés et de leur influence au niveau local. Se définissant sur les territoires qu’ils contrôlent comme des arbitres et des pourvoyeurs de sécurité et biens que l’État malien défai…
Power and Comparative Methods: Performing the Worlds of Armed Conflicts
This Special Issue emphasises how power and power relations involved in establishing limits and boundaries to define, categorise and understand the world through comparison are intimately tied to conflict and intervention practices and dynamics. Indeed, when pundits, practitioners, academics and even conflict actors compare settings of armed conflict and intervention, they are participating in an inherently political move. The most off-handed of …
African security and global militarism
This Special Issue asks: what is the current place of militarism in relation to security where Africa is concerned? It aims to contribute to emerging debates interested in critical inquiry of the relation between militarism and security, and to explore its diverse articulations in African settings. We advance an international political sociological (IPS) approach to militarism in order to explore militarised security politics as a field of contes…
Sahelistan? Military Intervention and Patronage Politics in Afghanistan and Mali
The ‘Sahelistan’ discourse that conflates conflict dynamics in Afghanistan and Mali is widespread in Western media and policy circles. We argue that such representations contribute to the adoption of one-size-fits-all conflict management policies. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in both places, we also argue that these standard templates of intervention shape responses from local non-state armed actors, who manipulate foreign interveners for their…
The power of rumour(s) in international interventions: Minusma's management of Mali's rumour mill
The work of international interventions, whether grandiose or commonplace in scale, requires credible, verified information. Nevertheless, in settings of armed conflict that interventions aim to transform, information is more often than not improvised, unofficial, fragmented and based on multiple competing imaginaries. Interventions, therefore, are significantly influenced by rumours: the circulation of information and stories based on uncertain …
Briefing: How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger
This briefing explores the factors that led to the consolidated position of the Nigerien Security and Defence forces in support of the coup d’état launched the night of 26th July 2023. The initial blockade of the former President’s palace by the head of the Presidential Guard and 350 of its members looked like a mutiny. However, instead of moving swiftly to end the blockade, commanders from across the security forces appeared on national televisi…
Productive failure, African agency, and security cooperation in West Africa: The case of the G5 Sahel
This paper examines South–South security cooperation and regional organisations (ROs) in Africa. Much of the literature on peace and conflict in Africa has focused on ROs and the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). Guided by the mantra ‘African solutions to African problems’, these organisations have facilitated several instances of African-led security cooperation. Yet ROs have limited agency and capacity, are institutionally rigid, …
Grassroots Geopolitical Imaginaries in the Sahel: Civil Society Security Narratives in Burkina Faso and Niger
Recent shifts in the international security partnerships of several Sahelian countries have become a matter of fierce public debate. This article analyzes the link between geopolitical imaginaries, military-led governments, and civil society formations in Burkina Faso and Niger. It aims to explore how civil society actors in Burkina Faso and Niger co-construct different geopolitical imaginaries about security and foreign policy in the Sahel. Draw…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Global Security and Public Health (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 works)