Publications Africa

• Carina Gunnarson Frankrike vid ny skiljeväg i Afrika? FOI Memo 8304 External link, opens in new window.
• Anna Ida Rock and Erika Holmquist Regional Security Dynamics in the Horn of Africa FOI Memo 8194 External link, opens in new window.
• Carina Gunnarson och Olivier Milland Afrika och kapplöpningen om strategiska resurser. FOI Memo 8179 External link, opens in new window.
• Olivier Milland African Peace and Security Architecture in motion: Institutional reforms, geopolitics, and finance External link, opens in new window.
  • Infographic of the African Peace and Security Architecture, 2023.
• Elin Hellquist and Samuel Neuman Bergenwall Managing Security in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden - The Red Sea Council and the Prospect of Multilateralism External link, opens in new window.
• Karolina Lindén Russia´s growing influence in Mali - Is Burkina Faso next?FOI Memo 8090 External link, opens in new window.
• Carl Michael Gräns. Russia´s growing influence in Mali - Is Burkina Faso next? FOI Memo 8087 External link.
• Carina Gunnarson och Gabriella Körling. Relationerna mellan Frankrike och Mali 2017-2022 - Historien om en skilsmässa. FOI-R--5347--SE. External link, opens in new window.

• Aron Lund. EU på djupt vatten? Operation Irini, Medelhavsmigrationen och Libyenkonflikten FOI Memo 8061 External link, opens in new window.
• Anna Ida Rock. En utdragen exit - Somalias säkerhetssituation efter AMISOM.
  FOI Memo 7901
• Aron Lund. The Turkish Intervention in Libya. FOI-R--5207--SE

• Gabriella Körling. En omöjlig dialog? Utsikter för förhandling med jihadister i Mali. FOI Memo 7709 
• Erika Holmquist.Tigray: maktkampen som destabiliserar Etiopien. FOI Memo 7629

• Evelina Bonnier, Jakob Hedenskog. The United States and Russia in Africa. FOI Memo 5039
• Ellin Hellquist, Alexandra Hallqvist. Afrikanska Unionens fredsfond – Finansiellt ägarskap och säkerhetspolitisk handlingskraft. FOI Memo 7389
• Carina Gunnarson. Varför ökar våldet i Sahel? Strukturella faktorer som bidrar till ökad sårbarhet i Mali, Niger och Burkina Faso. FOI-R--5052--SE
• Samuel Bergenwall, Johan Englund. När de asiatiska stormakterna tar plats: Vilka avtryck gör Kina och Indien i Afrika? FOI Memo 7293
• Johan Englund, Samuel Bergenwall. När de asiatiska stormakterna tar plats - Vilka avtryck gör Kina och Indien i Afrika? FOI-R--4986--SE 
• Angelina Jakobsson. Nilenkonflikten: Dammbygge bidrar till ökade regionala spänningar. FOI Memo 7141 
• Alexandra Hallqvist, Bitte Hammargren. Navigating in a complex neighbourhood - Algeria’s responses to security challenges in Libya and the Sahel.FOI-R--4960--SE
• Karolina Gasinska, Carina Gunnarson. EU:s stormakter i Afrika - Frankrike, Tyskland, Spanien och Italiens Afrikapolitik under förändring. FOI-R--4836--SE 
  

• Carina Gunnarson, Karolina Gasinska. Niger i cyklonens öga – vad kan EU göra? FOI Memo 6782
• Karolina Gasinska, Eva Hagström Frisell, Jakob Hedenskog, Jerker Hellström, Emma Sjökvist, Madelene Lindström, Anna Sundberg, Samuel Bergenwall, Carina Gunnarson (red.). Foreign military bases and installations in Africa, FOI-R--4658--SE External link.
• Carina Gunnarson. Spain - Defending Overseas Territory and Interests in Africa External link., FOI Memo 6820
• Samuel Bergenwall. Turkey, United Arab Emirates and other Middle Eastern States - Middle Eastern Base Race in North-Eastern Africa External link., FOI Memo 6809
• Samuel Bergenwall. India - A Rising Power in East African Waters External link., FOI Memo 6810
• Carina Gunnarson. Japan - Towards Pro-active Collective Self-Defence, FOI Memo 6811 External link.
• Emma Sjökvist. The United Kingdom - Training Troops and Maintaining Influence in Africa External link., FOI Memo 6813
• Anna Sundberg. France - A Continuing Military Presence in Francophone Africa External link., FOI Memo 6814
• Jerker Hellström. China´s National Interests Expanding Overseas to Africa External link., FOI Memo 6815
• Karolina Gasinska. Italy Refocus on Africa to Control Migration Flows External link., FOI Memo 6816
• Madelene Lindström. The United States - From Counter-terrorism to Great Power Competition in Africa? External link. FOI Memo 6817
• Eva Hagström Frisell. Germany - linking Military deployments in Africa to National Security,  External link.FOI Memo 6819
• Elin Hellquist. Somaliskt säkerhetsansvar mellan hopp och förtvivlan. FOI Memo 6777 External link, opens in new window. 
• Alexandra Hallqvist, Lovisa Mickelsson. Huggsexa om Libyen driver oljestaten mot fortsatt förfall. FOI MEMO 6785 External link, opens in new window.

• Jakob Hedenskog. Russia is stepping up its military cooperation in Africa, FOI MEMO 6604 External link.
• Sara Sörensen. Utmaningarna för fred i Sydsudan FOI MEMO 6476
• Eva Hagström Frisell & Helené Lackenbauer. Still a long way to go: A review of the implementation of UNSCR 1325 by United Nations peacekeepers in Mali, FOI-R--4573--SE 
  
• Mikael Eriksson, Elias Bohman. The Second Libyan Civil War - Security Developments During 2016-2017, FOI-R--4571--SE
  

• Karolina Gasinska, Elias Bohman. Joint Force of the Group of Five - A review of multiple challenges, FOI-R--4548--SE 
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund, Helene Lackenbauer. Insatsuppföljning Mali 04/05 FOI-R--4487--SE
  
• Daniel Torbjörnsson, Michael Jonsson. Boko Haram. On the verge of defeat or a long term threat? FOI-R--4488--SE 
  
• Adriana Lins de Albuquerque. Terrorism in Africa - A Quantitative Analysis, FOI-R--4398--SE 
  
• Daniel Torbjörnsson. Explaining the differences in al-Shabaab expansion into Ethiopia and Kenya FOI Memo 6061 Pdf, 196.9 kB, opens in new window..
  

• Claes Nilsson & Cecilia Hull Wiklund. En fredsfrämjare i krig? – FN och konflikten i Mali, FOI Memo 5786 Pdf, 156.4 kB, opens in new window.
  
• Michael Jonsson and Daniel Torbjörnsson. Resurgent, Reinvented or Simply Resilient? The growing threat of al-Shabaab in Somalia, FOI Memo: 591 Pdf, 248.1 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund and Claes Nilsson. Peace in Mali? An analysis of the 2015 Algiers agreement and its implementation, FOI-R--4311--SE 
  
• Karta över den Afrikanska freds- och säkerhetsarkitekturen (AU Peace and Security ) Pdf, 1.1 MB, opens in new window.
• Adriana Lins de Albuquerque. The African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) - Discussing the Remaining Challenges, FOI-R--4301--SE 
  
• Mikael Eriksson. Libyen och den militära kampen mot Daesh, FOI Memo: 5816 Pdf, 236.7 kB, opens in new window.
  
• Mikael Eriksson. Det libyska inbördeskriget, FOI Memo: 5814 Pdf, 100 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Mikael Eriksson. Säkerhetsfrämjande insatser i Libyen, FOI Memo: 5815 Pdf, 98.9 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Kristoffer Darin Mattsson. Klimatkonflikter? Klimatets betydelse för två lokala konflikter i Mali, FOI-R--4244--SE
  
• Daniel Torbjörnsson and Michael Jonsson. Containment or Contagion? Countering al Shabaab Efforts to Sow Discord in Kenya, FOI Memo 5742  Pdf, 258.1 kB, opens in new window.
  
• Camilla Elowson Terrorbekämparen Tchad– en strategisk spelare bakom fredsfrämjande fasad, FOI Memo 5691 Pdf, 160.2 kB, opens in new window.
  
• Camilla Elowson and Adriana Lins de Albuquerque. Challenges to Peace and Security in Eastern Africa: The role of IGAD, EAC and EASF, FOI Memo 5634  Pdf, 272.7 kB, opens in new window.
  
• Daniel Torbjörnsson. Managing Communal Conflict in Africa, FOI-R--4226--SE 
  
• Camilla Elowson. Burkina Fasos flerfaldiga utmaningar, FOI Memo 5167 Pdf, 114.8 kB, opens in new window.

• Samuel Bergenwall och Mikael Eriksson. Mellanöstern och Nordafrika i ett 5-10-årsperspektiv, FOI-R--4008--SE 
  
• Camilla Elowson och Cecilia Hull Wiklund. Burundi - allt på spel i tredje perioden, FOI Memo 5486 Pdf, 288.5 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Mikael Eriksson. A Fratricidal Libya and its Second Civil War, FOI-R--4177--SE Opens in new window. 
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund. ACIRC – en afrikansk förmåga till omedelbar krishantering?, FOI Memo 5239 Pdf, 88.1 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund and Gabriella Ingerstad. The Regionalisation of Peace Operations in Africa. Advantages, challenges and the way ahead, FOI-R--4031--SE 
  
• Gabriella Ingerstad och Cecilia Hull Wiklund. Trender och utmaningar i genomförandet av regionala insatser i Afrika, FOI Memo 5254 
  
• Gabriella Ingerstad and Magdalena Tham Lindell. Challenges to Peace and Security in Central Africa: The Role of ECCAS, FOI Memo 5327 
  
• Gabriella Ingerstad and Magdalena Tham Lindell. Stabilisering av Mali – grannländernas politiska och militära engagemang, FOI Memo 5276 
  
• Jonathan Kananen. USA som kontraterrorismaktör i Afrika, FOI Memo 5243 Pdf, 89.9 kB, opens in new window.
  
• Helené Lackenbauer, Magdalena Tham Lindell and Gabriella Ingerstad. "If our men won't fight, we will". A Gendered Analysis of the Armed Conflict in Northern Mali, FOI Memo 5243
  
• Adriana Lins de Albuquerque. Challenges to Peace and Security in North Africa: Accounting for the Lack of Regional Institutional Response, FOI Memo 5421 Pdf, 119.5 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Adriana Lins de Albuquerque and Cecilia Hull Wiklund. Challenges to Peace and Security in Southern Africa. The Role of SADC, FOI Memo 5594 Pdf, 409.4 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Kim Mattsson. Weak States and Transnational Crime - Consequences for Stability, FOI Memo 5283 
  
• Claes Nilsson och Magdalena Tham Lindell. Framåt Sahel. En analys av Sveriges förbandsbidrag till FN:s insats i Mali, FOI-R--4172--SE 
  
• Johan Tejpar and Adriana Lins de Albuquerque. Challenges to Peace and Security in West Africa: The Role of ECOWAS, FOI Memo 5382 Pdf, 172 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Magdalena Tham Lindell och Gabriella Ingerstad. Stabilisering av Mali – grannländernas politiska och militära engagemang, FOI Memo 5276

• Mikael Eriksson. Illict Flows and African Security.
  
• Mikael Eriksson. Libya in Retrospect: Security Implications and Evolving Norms, FOI Memo 5007
  
• Mikael Eriksson. Libyen 1000 dagar senare, FOI Memo 4922 
  
• Mikael Eriksson. Popular Uprisings that Never Came. Algeria and Morocco in the Light of the Arab Revolts, FOI-R--3821--SE
  
• Mikael Eriksson. Udda barn? Algeriet och Marocko i ljuset av de arabiska revolterna, FOI MEMO 4868 
  
• David Harriman och Emma Skeppström. Insatsanalys EUTM Somalia, FOI-R--3986--SE 
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund och Gabriella Ingerstad. Sydsudan - krig i världens yngsta stat ,FOI Memo 4829 
  
• Gabriella Ingerstad. Central African Republic - Trapped in a Cycle of Violence? FOI-R--3877--SE 
  
• Gabriella Ingerstad. Transnationella konsekvenser av konflikten i norra Nigeria, FOI Memo 5025
  
• Gabriella Ingerstad. Violence in the Central African Republic: Causes, Actors and Conflict Dynamics, FOI MEMO 4976
  
• Gabriella Ingerstad. Våldet i Centralafrikanska republiken: orsaker, aktörer och konfliktdynamik,FOI Memo 4942
  
• Helené Lackenbauer and Michael Jonsson. Implementing UNSCR 1325 in Capacity Building Missions: a study of NMT Afghanistan, EUTM Somalia and EUTM Mali, FOI-R--3925--SE 
  
• Adriana Lins de Albuquerque. Explaining the 2012 Tuareg Rebellion in Mali and Lack Thereof in Niger, FOI Memo 5099
  
• Adriana Lins de Albuquerque. The Tuareg and the Security Situation in Mali and Niger.
  
• Claes Nilsson and Johan Norberg. European Union Traning Mission Somalia. A Mission Assessment.
  
• Emma Skeppström and Per Nordlund. Security, Stabilisation and State Formation in Somalia. Challenges for
• Implementing the Somali Compact, FOI-R--3899--SE
  
• Emma Skeppström. Utmaningar för säkerhet och stabilitet i Somalia, FOI Memo 4967
• Magdalena Tham Lindell och Kim Mattsson. Mali: transnationella hot mot fred och säkerhet.
  
• Magdalena Tham Lindell and Kim Mattsson. Transnational Threats to Peace and Security in the Sahel. Consequences in Mali, FOI-R--3881--SE
• Magdalena Tham Lindell och Claes Nilsson. FN:s stabiliseringsinsats i Mali. Resultat och utmaningar för MINUSMA, FOI-R--3940--SE
  
• Magdalena Tham Lindell och Claes Nilsson. Utmaningar för FN:s stabiliseringsinsats i Mali, FOI Memo 5065 
  
• Henrik Persson. Hot mot fred och säkerhet i Nigeria, FOI Memo 4816
  
• Henrik Persson. Nigeria - An Overview of Challenges to Peace and Security, FOI-R--3834--SE
  
• Henrik Persson. Terrorism i norra Nigeria - en bakgrund, FOI Memo 4815

• Camilla Elowson and Per Nordlund. Paradigm Lost? The Joint Africa-EU Strategy: A Study of the Peace and Security Partnership, FOI-R--3752--SE
  
• Camilla Elowson och Magdalena Tham Lindell. En ny politisk modell för Mali.
  
• Mikael Eriksson (ed.), External Intervention in Somalia's Civil War. Security Promotion and National Interests?, FOI-R--3718--SE 
  
• Mikael Eriksson, Linnea Gelot (eds.). The African Union in Light of the Arab Revolts (focus: South Africa; Ethiopia; Algeria)
  
• Mikael Eriksson and Kristina Zetterlund. Dealing with Change. EU and AU Responses to the Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, FOI-R--3589--SE
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund,  AMISOM – A Model for a Peace Operation in Mali? FOI Memo 4393 Pdf, 87.2 kB, opens in new window.
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund. AMISOM - en modell för insats i Mali? FOI Memo 4376 Pdf, 97.7 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund. Centralafrikanska republiken- krisen och behovet av  internationella insatser, FOI MEMO 4629
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund, Framgångsfaktorer för AMISOM i Somalia.
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund, The Role of the African Union Mission in Securing Somalia, FOI-R--3687--SE
  
• Cecilia Hull Wiklund and Emma Skeppström. EU Training Mission in Mali - Challenges and Opportunities.
  
• C. Nna-Emeka Okereke, Nigeria and the African Union in the Light of the Arab Revolts.
  
• Henrik Persson. Sjöröveri på Afrikas västkust.
  
• Emma Skeppström. Utmaningar för säkerhet och stabilitet i Somalia, FOI-R--3783--SEa
  
• Emma Skeppström och Cecilia Hull Wiklund. European Union Traning Mission in Mali – en insatsanalys, FOI-R--3783--SE 
  
• Johan Tejpar och Kristina Zetterlund. EUCAP Nestor – Trying to Steer Out of the Doldrums, FOI-R--3721--SE
  
• Magdalena Tham Lindell och Anna Weibull. Sveriges militära bidrag till Operation Atalanta 2013, FOI-R--3728--SE

• Karta av Afrikanska fred- och säkerhetsarkitekturen (2012 ed). AU Peace Security Pdf, 1.1 MB, opens in new window..
  
• Mikael Eriksson. Mellanöstern och Nordafrika i ett 10-20-årsperspektiv. Stöd till långsiktig säkerhetspolitisk omvärldsanalys, FOI-R--3534--SE 
  
• Mikael Eriksson. When Still Waters Fizz. The Security Implications of the fall of the "Republican Monarchy" in Egypt, FOI-R--3526--SE 
  
• Eva Hagström Frisell, Magdalena Tham Lindell and Emma Skeppström. The EU Comprehensive Approach towards Somalia, Executive Summary.
  
• Eva Hagström Frisell, Magdalena Tham Lindell och Emma Skeppström. Land i sikte? EU:s samlade ansats gentemot Somalia, FOI-R--3462--SE
  
• Gabriella Ingerstad. Lord's Resistance Army i Centralafrika: Gränsöverskridande lösningar på ett regionalt problem, FOI-R--3399--SE
  
• Gabriella Ingerstad. Willing and Able? Challenges to Security Sector Reform in Weak Post-war States - Insights from the Central African Republic, FOI-R--3470--SE
  
• Carina Lamont. Afrika och militär intervention - en folkrättslig analys av Afrikanska unionens och afrikanska regionala organisationers interventionsprinciper, FOI-R--3514--SE
  
• Claes Nilsson och Johan Norberg. European Union Training Mission Somalia - en insatsanalys, FOI-R--3614--SE
  
• Emma Skeppström. Ett gyllene tillfälle? Den politiska utvecklingen i Somalia, FOI Memo 4087 Pdf, 151.4 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Emma Skeppström. Grannosämja: Konflikten mellan Sudan och Sydsudan, FOI Memo 4081 Pdf, 154.8 kB, opens in new window. 
  
• Johan Tejpar och Karolina Gasinska. Säkerhetsutvecklingen i Afrika söder om Sahara i ett 10-årsperspektiv, FOI-R--3537--SE 
  
• Magdalena Tham Lindell. Fred och säkerhet i Mali - vägen framåt.
  
• Magdalena Tham Lindell. Ur askan i elden. Förutsättningar för militär intervention i norra Mali, FOI-R--3506--SE

• Camilla Elowson. Minor conflict, major consequences? Facing an unresolved identity crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, FOI-R--3170--SE 
  
• Mikael Eriksson. Perils Accompanying the Moment of Promise: Security Challenges in Nort Africa Following the Arab Spring, FOI-R--3273--SE
  
• Cecilia Hull, Emma Skeppström and Karl Sörenson. Patchwork for Peace? Regional Capabilities for Peace and Security in Eastern Africa, FOI-R--3048--SE 
  
• Karl Sörenson. Wrong Hands on Deck? Combating Piracy & Building Maritime Security in Eastern Africa, FOI-R--3228--SE 

• Eldridge Adolfo. Peace-Building after Post-Modern Conflicts: The UN Integrated Mission (UNAMSIL) in Sierra Leone, FOI-R--2959--SE 
  
• Eldridge Adolfo. Sierra Leone: splitting under the strain of elections? FOI-R--3116--SE
  
• Eldridge Adolfo. Youth, Arms & Drugs: Potential Security Developments Surrounding Elections in Liberia, FOI-R--3120--SE 
  
• Alexander Atarodi. Yemen in Crisis: Consequences for the Horn of Africa, FOI-R--2968--SE
  
• Camilla Elowson and Justin MacDermott. ECOWAS Capabilities in Peace and Security: A scoping study of progress and challenges, FOI-R--3114--SE
  
• Mikael Eriksson. Supporting Democracy in Africa: African Union's use of Targeted Sanctions to deal with Unconstitutional Changes of Government, FOI-R--3000--SE
  
• Justin MacDermott, Karl Sörenson och Markus Derblom. Afrikansk säkerhet i ett 20-årsperspektiv, FOI-R--2897--SE

• Eldridge Adolfo. The Collision of Liberation and Post-Liberation Politics within SADC - a study on SADC and the Zimbabwean Crisis, FOI-R--2770--SE
  
• Arvid Ekengard. Coordination and Coherence in the Peace Operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, FOI-R--2805--SE
  
• Camilla Elowson. Clouds at the Horizon? Security Challenges in South Africa's Post-Transition Period, FOI-R--2765--SE
  
• Camilla Elowson. The Joint Africa-EU Strategy - a Study of the Peace and Security Partnership, FOI-R--2736--SE
  
• Jerker Hellström. China's Emerging Role in Africa - a Strategic Overview.
  
• Cecilia Hull and Markus Derblom. Abandoning Frontline Trenches? Capabilities for Peace and Security in the SADC Region, FOI-R--2768--SE
  
• Justin MacDermott. Breaking the Mould in Zimbabwe - Pragmatic Engagement at a Critical Juncture, FOI-R--2771--SE
  
• Karl Sörenson and Nima Damidez. To Have and Have Not. A Study on the North African Regional Capability, FOI-R--2830--SE

• Karin Bogland, Robert Egnell och Maria Lagerström. Afrikanska unionen - en studie med inriktning på konflikthantering, FOI-R--2481--SE
  
• Markus Derblom, Eva Hagström Frisell and Jennifer Schmidt. UN-EU-AU Coordination in Peace Operations in Africa, FOI-R--2602--SE
  
• Arvid Ekengard. The African Union mission in Sudan (AMIS) - Experiences and lessons learned, FOI-R--2559--SE
  
• Peter Haldén. Somalia: Failed State or Nascent States-System? FOI-R--2598--SE
  
• Cecilia Hull and Emma Svensson. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) - Exemplifying African Union Peacekeeping Challenges, FOI-R--2596--SE
  
• Cecilia Hull. Integrated Missions - a Liberia Case Study, FOI-R--2555--SE
  
• Cecilia Hull. What Future for Privatized Peacekeeping? Prospects and realities in the UN debate, FOI-R--2540--SE
  
• Magnus Norell, Karl Sörenson och Nima Damidez. Afrikanska utmaningar - perspektiv på FN:s, EU:s och AU:s säkerhetspolitiska arbete, FOI-R--2487--SE
  
• Magnus Norell. Islamist Networks in Somalia, FOI-R--2609--SE
  
• Emma Svensson. The African Mission in Burundi (AMIB) - Lessons learned from the African Union's first Peace Operation, FOI-R--2561--SE
  
• Emma Svensson. The African Union's Operations in the Comoros - MAES and Operation Democracy, FOI-R--2659--SE
  
• Karl Sörenson. Beyond Franceafrique - The foundation, reorientation and reorganisation of France's Africa politics, FOI-R--2553--SE
  
• Karl Sörenson. State Failure on the High Seas - Reviewing the Somali Piracy, FOI-R--2610--SE

2007

• Peter Haldén. The Geopolitics of Climate Change, FOI-R--2377--SE
  
• Magnus Jörgel and Mats Utas. The Mano River Basin Area - Formal and Informal Security Providers in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, FOI-R--2418--SE