Transnational Conflict
Workers load aid supplies into a military plane bound for Port Sudan at the Abu Dhabi International Airport in the United Arab Emirates
My fifth strand of research focuses on transnational conflicts and foreign military support to conflict parties in civil wars.
Already during my PhD research on civil wars in Africa, I realized that most conflicts have a transnational element. My post-doc at the London School of Economics (LSE) with Alex de Waal and Mary Kaldor allowed me to compile a dataset to study transnational conflicts in Africa. The findings based on this dataset have been published in an article in the Journal of Modern African Studies. Furthermore, I have collaborated with Henning Tamm to study mutual interventions, which are conflicts in which two states simultaneously intervene in each other’s intrastate wars by supporting rebel groups. Together, we have mapped the occurrence of mutual interventions in Africa, analyzed the conditions under which negotiations are initiated, and explored the factors that lead to their termination.
