partners. The last section shows that the Sahel Strategy has undermined local ownership and has the potential role in the EU foreign policy process and to promote their vision for the EU in the world. The attempt transforming the EU s relations with West Africa WA and raises some issues that concern the political agency struggles at the discursive and praxis levels are performing the international agency of the EU. These struggles attempt to re-define the EU as a strategic actor which lies at the heart of the Comprehensive Approach is also Performing EU agency by experimenting the ‘comprehensive approach’: The European union Sahel strategy. Journal Performing EU agency by experimenting the ‘Comprehensive Approach’: the European Union Sahel Strategy

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doing so the article briefly introduces the different Muslim communities within China as well as the impact how securitization campaigns by the Chinese Communist Party CCP turn the country s Muslim minorities into to legitimize the CCP s repressive security practices. Applying securitization theory the article examines ethnicity-based differences in the securitization process particularly between the Hui and Uyghur Muslim minority impact of the Chinese government s Open Door Policy on Chinese Muslim minorities. The existential security GONUL, H. et ROGENHOFER, J. The Disappearance of the “Model Muslim Minority” in Xi Jinping’s China: Intended The Disappearance of the “Model Muslim Minority” in Xi Jinping’s China: Intended Policy or Side Effect

ideas and identities the article posits that the observed developments are constitutive of a reordering Abstract Focusing on the evolution of China s interactions with Egypt and the parties to the Israeli Palestinian challenging the Western-dominated status quo ante not through the deconstruction of the international through a resistance to the Western monopoly over the latter s evolution and over the production and interpretation conflict this article aims to understand the contexts that encourage increased synergy between Middle AOUN, Elena et KELLNER, Thierry. The crises in the Middle East: A window of opportunity for rising China The crises in the Middle East : A window of opportunity for rising China

Abstract The notion of the criminalization of the state is paradoxical. On the one hand the idea that absolute light on the potentially criminal behaviour of state-officials. On the other the assumption that legal rules contemporary form linked to the bureaucratic rule of the state itself. In this commentary on the contributions to are general and anonymous that they apply identically to everybody and that allows defining these elites address this and other paradoxes of the state with regard to the relation between politics and criminality OLSSON, Christian. The criminalization of politics, the politics of criminalization and their paradoxes The criminalization of politics, the politics of criminalization and their paradoxes

process that cuts across various developments in the recent history of Mali the conflict between the two affiliated with the Islamic State were recorded in central Mali. The violent escalation that has taken place exploit the situation. More specifically the rise of Islamic State appears directly connected to the material crisis of the system of governance established by Katiba Macina in the area under its control. As the result fragmentation Big Man networks Abstract Until the beginning of 2020 the Sahel was something of an exception with BALDARO, Edoardo et DIALL, Yida Seydou. The end of the Sahelian exception: Al-Qaeda and Islamic State State clash in central Mali. The International Spectator, 2020, vol. 55, no 4, p. 69-83. The End of the Sahelian Exception: Al-Qaeda and Islamic State Clash in Central Mali

MORIN, Jean-Frédéric. The life-cycle of transnational issues: Lessons from the access to medicines controversy The Life-Cycle of Transnational Issues: Lessons from the Access to Medicines Controversy

WILÉN, Nina. The future of African peace operations: from the Janjaweed to Boko Haram. International The future of African peace operations: from the Janjaweed to Boko Haram

DJALILI, Mohammad-Reza et KELLNER, Thierry. The rise of Iran in the Middle East: between fiction and The Rise of Iran in the Middle East : Between Fiction and Reality

interrogating the historical-contextual origins of conventions that so strongly shape the world of academic while one could expect the globalization of the social sciences to lead to the transnational circulation reasoning we raise questions about the conditions of the present and the naturalization of standards on how transnational in scope with regards to the authors whose work they publish and the audiences whose readership they instead witnessing the imposition of a strangely singular and harmonized mode of doing the social sciences Didier, BEERLI, Monique, et al. The Art of Writing Social Sciences: Disrupting the Current Politics of Style The Art of Writing Social Sciences: Disrupting the Current Politics of Style