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Baz Lecocq
Researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin
Publications - 25
Citations - 546
Baz Lecocq is an academic researcher from Humboldt University of Berlin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Independence. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 23 publications receiving 505 citations. Previous affiliations of Baz Lecocq include Ghent University & Humboldt State University.
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One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: a multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali
Baz Lecocq,Gregory Mann,Bruce Whitehouse,Dida Badi,Lotte Pelckmans,Nadia Belalimat,Bruce S. Hall,Wolfram Lacher +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, a group of eight scholars tried to give a comprehensive overall picture of the current political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi-Salafi movements, leading to a coup d'etat against the incumbent President Toure, and finallly a political stalemate of great concern to the international community.
One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: a multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali: extended editors cut
Baz Lecocq,Gregory Mann,Bruce Whitehouse,Dida Badi,Lotte Pelckmans,Nadia Belalimat,Bruce S. Hall,Wolfram Lacher +7 more
TL;DR: In 2012, the political landscape in the Republic of Mali transformed rapidly, drastically, and unpredictably The formation of a new Tuareg political movement (the National Movement of Azawad) in October 2010 and the return to Mali of Tuaregs with military experience from the Libyan conflict in August 2011, bringing along heavy weapons and logistical supplies made speculation on renewed violence on the part of separatist Tuarege inevitable Indeed, TuareG separatists launched attacks on Malian garrisons in the Sahara in January 2012 Mali had experienced such rebellions before What nobody foresaw was that this renewed
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The War on Terror in a Haze of Dust: Potholes and Pitfalls on the Saharan Front
Baz Lecocq,Paul Schrijver +1 more
TL;DR: In recent decades peoples in the Sahara and Sahel have developed a new type of assault vehicle that is best known under the name of its most significant weapon, the Soviet-made Teknikal heavy machine gun as discussed by the authors.
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Unemployed intellectuals in the Sahara: The Teshumara nationalist movement and the revolutions in Tuareg society
TL;DR: In the past four decades the Tuareg, a people inhabiting the central Sahara, experienced dramatic socioeconomic upheaval caused by the national independence of the countries they inhabit, two droughts in the 1970s and 1980s, and prolonged rebellion against the state in Mali and Niger in the 1990s.
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The Bellah Question: Slave Emancipation, Race, and Social Categories in Late Twentieth-Century Northern Mali
TL;DR: The processus d'affranchissement des Touareg, autrefois esclaves, that l’on nomme generalement bellah, dans le Mali du nord, de la fin des annees 1940 a nos jours, and les relations actuelles entre les anciens maitres and les ancientens esclave.