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Security in the Sahel: Atlantic Memo #43

Security in the Sahel: Atlantic Memo #43

A few weeks back I contributed to an Atlantic Community theme week on Security Issues in the Sahel. The result was Atlantic Memo #43, Security in the Sahel: Regional Initiatives in Pursuit of Long-Term Stability (pdf, web). The memo has already received a response from Dr. Thomas Bagger, Head of the Policy Planning Staff of Germany’s Federal Foreign Office.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

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Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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