WiSi Online 2/2022: Simple Solutions for Complex Problems: Are Europe's contemporary national strategies suited to tackle future challenges in the Sahel?

The crisis in the Sahel region has been identified as one of Europe’s core security concerns for the next decade. Are Europe's contemporary national strategies suited to tackle future challenges in the Sahel?

To assess whether contemporary European strategies for the Sahel are fit to tackle anticipated problems, we conducted an integrative literature review of eleven published scenarios and compared a compiled trend scenario to the current security and development approaches of five national actors and the European Union. Our analysis indicates an apparent disconnect between the European strategies, which strongly focus on migration and military approaches to security, and the highly complex and in-terconnected trend scenario.