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Policy Paper

Italy in the Sahel: A New National Projection Towards a Greater Mediterranean

Camillo Casola
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Edoardo Baldaro
03 June 2021

The Sahel region is the theatre for one of the most significant developments in Italian foreign policy in the last decade. As a consequence of the intersection between external shocks, domestic pressures, and internal reorganisations, Italy is testing new approaches, instruments, and strategies in the Sahel to further its national interest, which is understood as much in terms of national security as domestic stability and international status.

Contrasting and curbing irregular migration and fighting against terrorist groups in the region are the two main concerns behind the Italian strategic re-orientation towards the Sahel. In this sense, the definition of national interests in the area emerges from the entanglement of foreign and domestic considerations. Italian initiatives have also responded to the collateral need to restructure Rome’s relationship with Paris and Berlin on specific foreign and security policy issues and interests.

 

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Africa Sahel Italy Europe
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AUTHORS

Camillo Casola
ISPI Associate Research Fellow - Africa Programme
Edoardo Baldaro
Université Libre de Bruxelles

 

This Policy Brief is realized with the support of the Policy Planning Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation pursuant to art. 23-bis of Presidential Decree 18/1967. The opinions expressed in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and ISPI.

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