The Algerian national security strategy towards security threats in the sahel region

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2018

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: IMAD ATOUI

Danışman: ÖKE MİM KEMAL BÜLENT

Özet:

This study claims that Algeria is one of the African Sahel region’s countries that have been facing serious security threats, because of various causes contributing to instability in African great Sahara. Particularly in the post cold war era, when African Sahel states have been suffering from internal issues led to exacerbate insecurity circumstances and opened the gate to foreign powers to intervene in African affairs. Both African states’ local problems and foreign interference have escalated the pace of security risks in Africa, and could put African future security at stake. This thesis comes to argue that the effective way for Algeria to stand against security threats coming from its southern part, require from both Algeria and African countries’ efforts to be poured into concerted regional and international level endeavors. As, this paper enlightens the nature of threats that African Sahel states facing by one hand, and reveals African states’ efforts to cope with security issues by another hand. Moreover, the analysis focuses on Algerian reactions towards threats coming from the Sahel region, within its followed strategy at the regional level. Further, this study exposes the foreign interference in Africa and how these powers compete to reach African land. Finally, this analysis suggests what should for African nations to do towards their local and regional problems to avoid security instability that could cause security chaos in the region. Precisely, Algeria that has stood for peace keeping in many regional events.