Category: Arab Spring

• Security Challenges in Libya and the Sahel (CNA Workshop Report)

  December 19, 2012

  AQIM, Arab Spring, Libya, Mali, MNLA, North Africa, Terrorism, Tuareg

  Over the past two years, the world has witnessed a redrawing of the geopolitical map of the Middle East and North Africa. The responsibility for regional security and stability – which Western governments once relied on the area’s authoritarian regimes to ensure – now falls to the transitional or newly elected governments that replaced the Read.

• North Africa and the Sahel: Implications of the Arab Awakening (CNA Conference Report)

  May 1, 2012

  Arab Spring, North Africa

  In February, CNA’s Center for Strategic Studies and McDaniel College co-hosted a conference to examine recent developments in North Africa in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and their implications for U.S. policy in that part of the world. The day-long conference included presentations by U.S. government officials and recognized experts on this part of the world from universities, Read.