Contemporary French Security Policy in Africa

Benedikt Erforth holds a PhD in International Studies from the University of Trento and has taught international relations, foreign policy, and EU politics at Sciences Po Paris, France. His work has been published in Millennium, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and the European Review of International Affairs.

• 1. Introduction: France's New Interventionism in Africa.- 2. Ever Just the Same? French Foreign and Security Policy in Africa.- 3. Agents, Structures, and Ideas.- 4. Securitizing Mali: No Free Ride for Terrorists in Francophone Africa.- 5. Avoiding a Second Rwanda: Peacekeeping in the Central African Republic.- 6. After the Storm.