Terrorism and Political Contention

János Besenyő is a full professor in the Óbuda University, Donát Bánki Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering (Hungary) and head of the Africa Research Institute. Between 1987 and 2018, he served as a professional soldier and served in several peace operations in Africa and Afghanistan. He received a PhD in military science from Zrínyi Miklós National Defense University (Hungary) and he received a habilitated doctorate at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary). In 2014, he established the Scientific Research Centre of the Hungarian Defence Forces General Staff, and was its first leader from 2014 to 2018. His most recent publication is Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara: The Role of the UN's Peacekeeping Mission (MINURSO).Leonid Issaev is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science and International Affairs and the vice director of the Center for Stability and Risks Analysis at the HSE University (Russia), and senior research fellow at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Andrey Korotayev is the Director of the Center for Stability and Risks Analysis of the HSE University (Russia), the senior research professor of the Oriental Institute and Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, the senior research professor of the International Laboratory for Political Demography of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, and a professor at the Faculty of Global Studies of the Moscow State University.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Terrorism and Political Contention in North Africa and the Sahel Region (János Besenyő).- Part I. Terrorism and Political Contention in North Africa and the Sahel Region: Factors, Patterns, Regularities.- Chapter 2. Migration and Terrorism in North Africa (Viktor Glied).- Chapter 3. Terrorist Financing from North Africa to the Sahel Region: Exhaustible or Inexhaustible Stream? (Szabolcs Pásztor).- Chapter 4. Female Vulnerabilities for Terrorist Activities in North Africa and the Sahel Zone (Nina Käsehage).- Chapter 5. “Chasse Gardée” or “Faubourg”?: Politico-Military Interventions of France in the Sahel Region (András István Türke).- Chapter 6. The Ukrainian Conflict's Impact on the Prevailing Causes for Radicalization in North Africa (János Besenyő).- Chapter 7. Coupvolution as a Mechanism of Regime Change in the Sahel (Egor Fain).- Part II. Country Particularities of Terrorism and Political Contention in the Region