This book represents a different approach in the study of the Sahel region in North Africa. Due to the hybrid security threats sweeping across the area, the whole region becomes a new security complex different from Middle East and more related to Western and Central Africa developments, including the impact of drug-trafficking coming from Latin America. This book discusses how the Transnational Organized Crime-Terrorism Nexus has created a very different dynamics from Middle East’s, hitting hard to people, societies and states there. The contributors argue that the countries in the area and the European Union should recognize this new complex and respond properly and differently to this situation.

Contributions by: Aurora Ganz, Carolina Sampo, Gustavo Diaz, Julia Pulido, Nieva Machín Osés, Raquel Barras Tejudo, Ruben Herrero de Castro, Soledad Segoviano