Prénom de l'expert
Alain
Nom de l'expert
ANTIL
Researcher and Head of the Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Ifri
Research Areas:
- Mauritania, Sahel, West Africa
- Social and political issues
- Security and terrorism, traffics
Alain Antil is a researcher and director of Ifri's Sub-Saharan Africa Center. He is a lecturer at Paris 1 Sorbonne's masters in geopolitics and at IEP Lille's master's on Peace, Humanitarian Action and Development. He obtained his doctoral thesis in political geography at the University of Rouen. He was notably a researcher at the Laboratory for the Study of the Development of Arid Regions (Rouen University) at IRIS and an external collaborator of the International Crisis Group (ICG).
His research initially focused on the importation of the State and exogenous political modes in Africa, particularly in Mauritania. Since the end of the 2000s, he has been interested in security issues in the Sahel region. He first focused on trafficking and its impacts on the political field and on insecurity, then on the root causes of conflict in the Sahel. Today he works on the evolution of the presence of Sahelian states in their territory as well as, more broadly, on the geopolitical recompositions at work south of the Sahara.
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