31 May 2013
Crisis in Mali: Root Causes and Long-Term Solutions
This paper argues that the West's overemphasis on counterterrorism and regime change obscured the long-term political causes of the crisis in Mali. Because the country's true problems remain the politicization of ethnicities and the marginalization of local interests, the solutions at hand need to be expansive ones -- i.e., political decentralization and security sector reform, to name just two.
© 2013 United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
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Hannah Armstrong
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