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The French army is entrenching itself in the sahel region since 2014, claiming a near victory over the multitude of armed groups operating in the region. The french implication relies heavily on special operation units waging a movement war against the so-called "terror groups". But what are the true natures of those groups? Such armed groups are actually far from being the archetype of international Jihadist organisations that the french government claims they are fighting. Paris Meanwhile, by fighting in those countries is actually entrenching itself geographically for its own geopolitical gains rather than pursuing humanistic goals. By supporting unrepresentative governments and relying on heavy military presence in the Sahel, the French governemnt is actually helping recruitment among those armed groups and is uncontiously helping their creations.

Transatlantic cooperation in the area of "homeland security" stepped up after 9/11. This article examines how the European Union & its member states responded to US demands in this domain. Three areas of US-EU negotiations are analyzed: the transfer of passenger data (PNR) to US authorities, the Container Security Initiative & the issue of machine readable passports that include biometric data. In most of these domains, the United States managed to take advantage of institutional, intra-European divisions. Yet, a case can be made that there is also a genuine transatlantic convergence at work -- as suggested by a comparative examination of the methods used within the frame of antiterrorism & the fight against illegal immigration. Adapted from the source document.

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Far from being opposites, 'terrorism 'and 'antiterrorism 'are on the contrary both reflections of anew distribution of violence and represent the privileged site of profound transformations of political modernity. This is the lesson that is to be drawn from the archeo-genealogical research that has been carried out in regards to the fight against terrorism as it has been implemented in (and by) the United States over the past fifty years. From this perspective, the terrorism/antiterrorism pair appears to be the disparate and radically heterogenous site of the advent of a renewed government technology: traceability. The present article offers a detailed examination of the twofold transformation - that of the modern state's security architecture and of the Schmittian figure of the enemy - set in motion by this renewal in the art of governing. Adapted from the source document.

Since Vladimir Putin's election as Russian president in 2000, the Federal Security Service (FSB), which replaced the much-feared KGB following the collapse of the Soviet Union, has emerged from the shadows. This comes as no surprise. After all, Putin began his career there, rising to head of the organization by the late 1990s. All the upper echelons of the Russian administration today include former FSB agents. Moreover, previous members of the FSB also rank among top management at many leading Russian businesses! At the same time, the organization itself has been given an increasingly broader prerogative: it played a critical role in the "anti-terrorist operation" which helped put down the revolt in Chechnya; it boasts its own intelligence services; and its often paranoid vision of the world heavily influences decisions in the Kremlin. Andrei Soldatov, the world's leading specialist on the FSB, looks behind the shady and complex workings of this self-contained state within a state. Adapted from the source document.

Al-Qaeda's failure was inevitable given the lack of realism of its objectives. It was accelerated by the "war on terror" launched by the Bush Administration, the international cooperation led by Washington and the destruction of Al-Qaeda's "headquarters" in Afghanistan. However, the failure in Iraq and the stalemate of the intervention in Afghanistan show another side of this war, with its financial, political and moral costs that no doubt follow from having overestimated the threat. Adapted from the source document.

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has expressed a growing interest for Algeria. The Algerian leaders, with their long experience in fighting terrorism, are ready to offer their services to the Pentagon, even if they refuse the installation of an American base in their country. The two states also develop economic relations: with investments totaling more than 11 billion dollars in 2005 (mainly in the hydrocarbon sector), the United States became Algeria's first economic partner in 2005-2006, France being relegated to second place. Adapted from the source document.

Interview with Hans-Georg Maassen, President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is extremely rare for the head of Germany's domestic intelligence service to speak on the record, making this interview with Jean-Paul Picaper particularly compelling. With responsibility for counter-espionage and fighting terrorism, Hans-Georg Maassen has a front row seat to observe changes in German society, notably the rise in radical Islam, shifts reshaping xenophobic far right movements, and the surge of far left anti-EU sentiment. More broadly, the service he heads keeps watch on all the small groups eager to undermine the foundations of the Federal Republic and denigrate its values. Thanks to information gathered from the field - sometimes with the help of foreign intelligence services, especially American - they have prevented several terrorist attacks. Through the activities of foreign agents within Germany he also monitors the vicissitudes of the new cold war taking shape between Europe and Russia. Adapted from the source document.