Boko Haram in Nigeria, Chebab in Somalia, Aqmi in Mali: Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos presents an original analysis of these groups of insurrectionists basing himself not just on religious considerations but also on economic, sociological and political data. Although he considers it urgent to put these phenomena in perspective, he argues that we must stop applying the same “antiterrorist” approach to them all.
This book, the fruit of interviews with Muslim leaders, soldiers and security service officials, finally provides a critical assessment of the military responses to the terrorist threat in the Sahel.
Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos is a political analyst. He is research director at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD – Research Institute for Development). He is an acknowledged expert on the African continent and is the author of Les Humanitaires dans la guerre: des idéaux à l’épreuve de la politique (Humanitarians in war: ideals put to the test by politics) (La Documentation française, 2013).