Współczesne konflikty zbrojne w Afryce i Jemenie: aktywność sił dżihadystycznych a zaangażowanie sił międzynarodowych
The current armed conflicts in Africa and Yemen: The activity of the Jihadists and the involvement of international forces

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze the ongoing armed conflicts in Africa and Yemen with a special focus on the activity of jihadist groups and the internationalization of these conflicts. The paper is a continuation of a cycle of articles for the Strategic Yearbook and as such it concentrates on the events and the armed conflicts’ dynamics in 2017. It discusses the present dynamics, intensity, internationalization and the activity of jihadists groups in African (in Maghreb and the Sahel as well as Somalia) and Yemeni armed conflicts. It argues these conflicts have been systematically internationalized for different reasons (regional security order, power balance, economic or humanitarian issues), but today they are dominated by non-state jihadist actors. The author attempts to determine to what extent the current growing military involvement of the Western states (if there is any) is motivated by the rise of the jihadist groups in those armed conflicts.

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