“Hybrid Orders” between Terrorism and Organized Crime: The Case of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
This article analyzesthe “nexus”betweenterrorismandorganized crime in the Sahel. The arguments animating recent debates can begroupedintotwodistinct positions: the apocalyptic approach, which tends to exaggerate the threat of terrorism and its links with organized crime, and the conspiratorial approach, which reveals how the specter of terrorism comes to be manipulated by a range of actors for their own particular interests. This study offers analternative view:thusfar the region has notbeensubject to the spread and consolidation of Islamist ideology but rather to hybrid orders that are a complex dynamic of instrumental adap tation on thepartofIslamist terrorists, criminal organizations, and the local population.
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