The Greater Maghreb, connected with the Western Sahel, emerges as an increasing concern for western security. Even if the eastern front of NATO is increasingly problematic, the challenges, risks and threats studied in this book demonstrate the need to balance the efforts to be made in security and defense terms by the West in the years to come.

Carlos Echeverría Jesús, University Institute General Gutiérrez Mellado-UNED

David Garcia Cantalapiedra and the contributors to this important volume describe a stark issue facing NATO and the EU. Drug trafficking, terrorism, criminal insurgency, hybrid warfare, refugees, and climate change trouble the Greater Maghreb, the area stretching across North Africa and the Sahel. Officials must devise a coherent policy for Europe’s southern flank, or the area stretching across North Africa and the Sahel might become another battleground in the Russian assault on the West. NATO and the Greater Maghreb is a call to consider seriously Europe’s southern security.

James J. Wirtz, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Cantalapiedra, in his latest edited book, NATO and the Greater Maghreb: Geopolitics, Threats and Great Powers, brings together the disparate frameworks of Geopolitics, Great Power Competition, and emerging Threats and Challenges to analyze NATO policy toward the Mahgreb. Long overlooked and sadly neglected by European security experts, this book forces those who follow NATO to take seriously security on the southern flank. For those following the debate over the next NATO Strategic Concept, this book is a must read.

David Hamon, University of Mary Washington