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More than 20 years ago, Robert Kaplan painted a picture of a descending anarchy threatening to engulf parts of West Africa with global consequences. Ethnic, tribal and identity grievances reinforced by environmental disaster , economic despair and the collapse of states served to reinforce such kinds of predictions that the future was bleak.
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Christie, K. (2018). Introduction: Migration, Refugees and Human Security in the Twenty-First Century. In: Boulby, M., Christie, K. (eds) Migration, Refugees and Human Security in the Mediterranean and MENA. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70775-4_1
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