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Lettre d'adieu de la Doyenne Monde Muyangwa à la Communauté du CESA

Chers amis du CESA, chers collègues,C’est avec des émotions partagées et un sentiment d’authentique respect pour vous et pour tous ceux qui ont consacré leur carrière à l’établissement d’une Afrique plus sûre, plus stable et plus prospère, que je vous fais part de ma décision, après bientôt...

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2023 Air Command and Staff College Seminar

On 12 July 2023, the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA Center) hosted approximately 90 students and faculty from the Air Command and Staff College. The group was briefed at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. by NESA Center Professor Dr. Gawdat Bahgat on security...

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2023 Air War College International Officer Seminar

On 23 June 2023, the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA Center) hosted 54 international fellows and faculty from the Air War College. The students were briefed at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. by NESA Center Academic Dean Dr. Roger Kangas on the Security...

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2023 NESA-AFRICOM Changing Nature of Security, Capacity, and Institutions Workshop

From 11–16 June 2023, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies conducted, in partnership with U.S. Africa Command, the “NESA-AFRICOM Changing Nature of Security, Capacity, and Institutions Workshop” in Casablanca, Morocco. Security discussions on capacity building and...

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ACSS Africa Security Briefs Available in 3 Languages!

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ACSS Congratulates Veteran Staff Members on Promotions

ACSS Congratulates Veteran Staff Members on Promotions By Africa Center for Strategic Studies Updated: 10/26/2011 Kareem Oweiss Named New ACSS Director of Operations. The Africa Center is pleased to announce that Kareem Oweiss has been appointed the new Director of...

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ACSS Counterterrorism Professor Benjamin Nickels Assesses Threats to Africa: Part one of a two part interview

Africa Center for Strategic Studies Updated: 12/08/2011 Dr. Benjamin P. Nickels, Assistant Professor of Transnational Threats and Counterterrorism at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), has been studying terrorism and effective ways to counter it for...

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ACSS Releases New Special Report: "The Anatomy of the Resource Curse: Predatory Investment in Africa's Extractive Industries"

While the natural resource curse is typically considered an economic phenomenon, access to abundant natural resource revenues also has profound effects on governance and the politicization of the security sector. Given the opaque nature of many of the transactions involved, relatively...

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ACSS Releases Special Report - Advancing Stability and Reconciliation in Guinea-Bissau: Lessons from Africa’s First Narco-State

The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) has released a Special Report on "Advancing Stability and Reconciliation in Guinea-Bissau: Lessons from Africa's First Narco-State." The 50-page report, released June 12, 2013, takes an in-depth look at how the global drug trade has turned the...

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ACSS Welcomes New Assistant Professor for Security Studies

The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) is pleased to welcome Mr. Thomas Dempsey, a retired U.S. Army colonel, as Assistant Professor for Security Studies. His expertise includes security sector reform (SSR), peace operations, failed state reconstruction, African area studies,...

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ACSS Welcomes New Communications and Community Outreach Chief

The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) is happy to announce that Mr. Brad Minnick is its new Director for Communications and Community Outreach. He will spearhead the center’s efforts to engage thousands of alumni around the world and expand the global audience that looks to...

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Africa Center February Newsletter

February's Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) Newsletter offers a range of thought-provoking products about important security issues across the continent. This month, you can read about ACCS' recent weeklong workshop in Rwanda on preventing youth...

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Africa Center for Strategic Studies Begins African Defense Attaché Seminar

View Photos From This Event.WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) kicked off its African Defense Attaché Seminar at the National Defense University on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. “The motives behind U.S. policy in Africa are...

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Africa Center's Dean Gilpin Writes on "Peacekeeping in Africa and the Legacy of Austerity" for USIP Blog

Spending cuts and budget austerity by African governments in the 1990s and 2000s mean that African militaries and peacekeeping forces are historically inadequately resourced and poorly prepared and equipped for deployment, the Africa Center’s Academic Dean, Dr. Raymond Gilpin, wrote in May...

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African Illicit Commons Seminar Participants Network at ACSS Event

View photos from the event.The Africa Center for Strategic Studies hosted 19 African military and civilian leaders for an informal briefing and networking event at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15, 2012. The leaders were on campus as participants in the...

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Air War College Seminar – Washington Program

On 23 June 2022, the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA Center) hosted 52 international fellows and faculty from the Air War College at Fort McNair in Washington, DC. The students were briefed by NESA Center Professor Dr. Gawdat Bahgat and NESA Center Academic Dean Dr....

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Ambassador Rice Remarks at UN Security Council briefing on Terrorism on May 13

Here's a link to Ambassador Susan Rice's remarks yesterday at a UN Security Council Briefing on Terrorism in Africa...http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2013/05/20130513147291.html?utm_source=Africa+Center+for+Strategic+Studies+-+Media+Review+for+May+14%2C+2013&...

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Coming Event: ACSS to Cohost Counternarcotics and Illicit Commons Seminar

The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies will cosponsor a four-day seminar on countering transnational threats and the...

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Dean Monde Muyangwa's Farewell Letter to ACSS Community

 Dean Monde Muyangwa’s Farewell Letter to ACSS Community[ENGLISH][FRANÇAIS][PORTUGUESE]Dear Africa Center Friends and Colleagues,It is with mixed emotions and genuine respect for you and all of those who have dedicated their careers to a more secure, stable, and prosperous Africa, that I...

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Defense Official Calls for More Cooperation Against Trafficking During Symposium Opening

View Photos From This Event. The only way for the world to counter the expanding international criminal drug trade is for nations to work together, a senior U.S. Defense Department official said during the opening of a transnational threats symposium in Washington, D.C...

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Alumni Publication: "6+6 Commission is almost dead; 5 scenarios, including war, for Libya" by Dr. Mustafa Fetouri

On 22 June, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) published NESA Center alum Dr. Mustafa Fetouri's Op-Ed "6+6 Commission is almost dead; 5 scenarios, including war, for Libya." "In his briefing to the UN Security Council he [United Nations envoy Abdoulaye Bathily] appeared to, quietly, announce...

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Alumni Publication: "Foreign meddling and competing interests hinder any solution in Libya" by Mustafa Fetouri

On 27 July 2023, Middle East Monitor published NESA Center alum Mustafa Fetouri's Op-Ed "Foreign meddling and competing interests hinder any solution in Libya." "Since the country fell victim to the so called 'Arab Spring' in 2011, it became an open arena for all sorts of external...

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Alumni Publication: "Sudan Low-Intensity Conflict and its Impact on North Africa and Sahel Region" by Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui

On 30 May 2023, the NESA Center published alumnus Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui's piece on the crisis in Sudan titled "Sudan Low-Intensity Conflict and its Impact on North Africa and Sahel Region." Read here         About the author [[{"fid":"467631","...

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Alumni Publication: "The Geopolitics of Rare Earth in Mediterafric" by Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui

On 20 June 2023, the NESA Center for Strategic Studies published alumnus Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui's recent Op-Ed (in French) "La Geopolitique Des Terres Rares : Enjeux Et Jeux D’influence En Mediterafrique" on the geopolitics of rare earth minerals in the "Mediterafrique." Read the...

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Alumni Publication: "The Politico-Military Crisis in Niger Intensifies the Risk of Blowing up the Sub-Saharan and North Africa Regions" by Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui

On 6 August 2023, the NESA Center published alumnus Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui's Op-Ed on the latest crisis in Niger and its impact on the regional scale, titled "The Politico-Military Crisis in Niger Intensifies the Risk of Blowing up the Sub-Saharan and North Africa Regions." "The new...

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Alumni Publication: Algeria-U.S. Strategic Partnership by Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui

The contemporary relations between Algeria and the United States of America date back to U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s support for the war of liberation against French colonialism. After regaining its independence, trade, energy, and security have been the factors of rapprochement...

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Alumni Publication: Israel and the African Union: A South African Perspective by Hussein Solomon

On 21 February 2023, think tank Research on Islam and Muslims in Africa (RIMA) published NESA Center alumnus Hussein Solomon's latest article titled "Israel and the African Union: A South African Perspective." Read the article here         The views...

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Alumni Publication: South Africa’s Greylisting and Terrorist Financing by Hussein Solomon

On 8 March 2023, think tank Research on Islam and Muslims in Africa (RIMA) published NESA Center alumnus Hussein Solomon's latest article titled "South Africa’s Greylisting and Terrorist Financing." Read the article here         The views...

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Alumni Publication: Transforming Higher Education in Africa by Moha Ennaji

NESA Center alumnus Moha Ennaji recently published an Op-Ed in Project Syndicate titled "Transforming Higher Education in Africa." "The COVID-19 pandemic has had a particularly devastating effect on African universities, revealing vast inequalities and a lack of technological capacity. Fixing...

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CSAG Information Paper: "China’s Approach to the Red Sea States"

Subject: China’s Approach to the Red Sea States. Purpose: This paper aims to present the results of the CSAG’s analysis of China’s Approach to the Red Sea States, including the “5-No Approach” to the African countries. Read the full paper here View other USCENTCOM Combined Strategic...

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CSAG Information Paper: "The Red Sea – Neglected Nexus"

Subject: The Red Sea – Neglected Nexus. Purpose: This paper presents CSAG’s perspective on the current challenges in the Red Sea region. It focuses on the long-lasting phenomenon of regional stability and provides arguments on the possibility of disrupting the status quo, as well as...

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CSAG Strategy Paper: "The Red Sea – Neglected Nexus"

Overview: The strategic importance of the Red Sea basin, together with the Suez Canal, is obvious. Nevertheless, there are reasons to believe that the Red Sea region is a neglected nexus by the US, but not by others such as China, Russia and Iran. This neglect is primarily because it is a...

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CSAG Strategy Paper: Türkiye's Role in the USCENTCOM AOR

Overview: Türkiye has quite a unique position in many perspectives e.g., geographically, geopolitically and geoeconomically. It lies at the intersection of Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia (and Africa) with ties to all of them; it has a land connection to the CENTCOM AOR, and it controls...

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Mantraya Annual Report 2022-23

The Mantraya Annual Report 2022-23 was released on 09 January 2023. The report is an annual compilation of Mantraya’s policy briefs, analyses, occasional papers, and voices from the South Asia region. Mantraya is an independent research forum that seeks to make constructive...

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Publication des anciens : L'Algérie affirme son appartenance géoéconomique méditerranéenne avec sa profondeur africaine par le Dr Arslan Chikhaoui

Depuis la crise politico-militaire Russo-ukrainienne, la région Méditerranée s’est révélée le théâtre de manoeuvres politico-diplomatiques de puissances. Elle est ainsi le premier des théâtres géopolitiques. La Méditerranée est, par voie de conséquence, un enjeu à trois niveaux: stratégique,...

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Publication des anciens : L'Algérie au centre de la politique africaine des Etats Unis à l’Ere d'une nouvelle dynamique géopolitique (Analyse) par le Dr Arslan Chikhaoui

A l’occasion de sa récente  conférence de presse, Madame l’Ambassadeur des Etats Unis à Alger, Moore Aubin,  a déclaré que: “….notre coopération sécuritaire et notre guerre commune contre le terrorisme sont la pierre angulaire de nos relations bilatérales, ainsi les deux pays œuvrent...

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Publication des anciens : L'Algérie est en faveur d'une zone exempte d'armes de destruction massive dans la région par le Dr Arslan Chikhaoui

L’Algérie vient d’être élue en qualité de vice-présidente de la 27e session de la Conférence des Etats parties à la Convention sur l’interdiction des armes chimiques, qui se déroule à La Haye du 28 novembre au 2 décembre 2022. En effet, la politique de l’Algérie est en faveur d’une “zone exempte...

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Publication des anciens : Sommet USA-Afrique – Le continent Africain, enjeu de la nouvelle dynamique géopolitique (Analyse) par le Dr Arslan Chikhaoui

Après les sommets “France-Afrique”,  “Russie-Afrique”, “Turquie-Afrique”, “Chine-Afrique” et “Japon-Afrique”, c’est au tour de Washington de concrétiser l’idée lancée à Abuja par le Secrétaire d’État américain Antony Blinken. Un sommet “USA-Afrique” avec les responsables américains et...

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The Downsides of Digital Revolution: Confronting Africa’s Evolving Cyber Threats

The recently published report, "The Downsides of Digital Revolution: Confronting Africa’s Evolving Cyber Threats," examines four kinds of cyber-enabled threats: organized crime, critical infrastructure sabotage, espionage/surveillance and armed conflict innovation. The report was sponsored by...

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The Niger Coup and Turkey’s Military Industrial Complex in Africa

On 23 August 2023, The Turkey Analyst published NESA Center regular speaker Professor Michaël Tanchum's article "The Niger Coup and Turkey’s Military Industrial Complex in Africa." "The recent military coup in Niger marks the point of no return for the unraveling of France’s dominant...

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