title: The Southern Flank of Europe does not finish in the Sands of Sahara[1]
abstract: In recent years, especially since the more aggressive stance of the Russian leadership, embodied in the Georgian war, the invasion and annexation of the Crimea and the intervention in Syria, in addition to a more aggressive and challenging position and reckoning with regard to the West, the Eastern flank has occupied the main concerns of NATO and European Union strategists, to the point of -in our view -almost becoming an obsession. Meanwhile, the Southern flank threats were becoming much more r
journal: Academia Letters