| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 34 pages) : color illustration, color maps |
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Wright flyer paper ; no. 93 |
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Wright flyer paper ; no. 93.
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| Contents |
Decoding the Chinese approach -- Decoding the Russian approach -- Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats -- Moving past the counterterrorism versus strategic competition dilemma |
| Summary |
"Exploring the future of strategic competition in the Sahel region, the present research formulates hypotheses regarding Chinese and Russian agendas in the subregion. Consistent with Belt and Road Initiative projects developed in Central Asia, China seeks to establish multimodal transport corridors connecting the Gulf of Aden to the Gulf of Guinea and the Mediterranean coast to the Gulf of Guinea. To do so, China will align its state-financed loans and construction efforts with the African Union's flagship Program Infrastructure Development for Africa (PIDA). Developing transportation will support the exploitation of untapped resources--such as oil, uranium, and lithium. Beijing will gradually expand its military footprint in the sub-region to protect its nationals, project the image of a responsible Great Power, and gain combat experience. A Chinese naval base in the Gulf of Guinea will also offer Beijing a strategic location on the Atlantic façade. Destabilization efforts in the Sahel region target Mali and, to a lesser extent, Chad. They follow a pattern like the one observed in the Central African Republic. Actors carrying out these nefarious activities belong to Yevgeny Prigozhin's nexus (e.g., the Wagner Group, its parent mining holding M-Invest, and influence operatives). Wagner's presence in Mali provides Russia with access to major human trafficking routes, giving Moscow political leverage against democracies on the Southern flank of NATO--a hybrid coercion strategy coined as cross-engineered migration (Greenhill, 2020). Thus, it is a continuation of Vladimir Putin's efforts to create rifts within the alliance and undermine NATO's unified stance on the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014."--Abstract |
| Notes |
"Accepted by Air University Press December 2022 and published April 2023"--Page ii |
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In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-34) |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (AUL ALMA-D, viewed on May 1, 2023) |
| Subject |
Competition, International.
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Competition, International
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Diplomatic relations
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Strategic aspects of individual places
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| SUBJECT |
Sahel -- Strategic aspects
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China -- Foreign relations -- United States
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United States -- Foreign relations -- China
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Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- United States
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation)
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China -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024025
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Africa -- Sahel
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China
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Russia (Federation)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Air University (U.S.). Air Command and Staff College, issuing body.
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Air University (U.S.). Press, publisher.
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