The Sahel: America's Most Difficult Diplomatic Frontier

The Sahel did not become America's hardest diplomatic problem overnight. It became one through a decade of security-forward engagement that treated jihadist insurgency as the primary variable and governance, poverty, and climate stress as secondary concer

The Sahel

How We Got Here

The Sahel did not become America's hardest diplomatic problem overnight. It became one through a decade of security-forward engagement that treated jihadist insurgency as the primary variable and governance, poverty, and climate stress as secondary concerns. The approach was not wrong; the security threats were real, but it was i…