Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11 in New York, the War on Terror has emerged and a change in the perspective of security and development has taken place. Underdevelopment and conflict in failed...Show moreSince the terrorist attacks on 9/11 in New York, the War on Terror has emerged and a change in the perspective of security and development has taken place. Underdevelopment and conflict in failed states is considered to be dangerous to the North. Some authors describe that underdevelopment and conflict in failed states can pose a threat to the security of the Northern states because failed states could offer a safe haven for terrorists. Because Northern states see underdevelopment and conflict as dangerous, they intervene in those states in order to fight the terrorists and make failed states more secure and stable. France is one example of a Northern state intervening a lot in failed African states. Ivory Coast and Mali are two states in which France has intervened. In Ivory Coast France intervened within a Civil War to stop the fighting whereas in Mali France intervened in order to counter terrorists. Those interventions by Northern states have certain effects on the state in which is intervened and although much has been written in the current literature about the general effects of liberal interventions, little has been said about the effects of liberal counterterrorist interventions in particular. In this research thesis I will therefore look more closely at the political and social effects of liberal counterterrorist interventions by comparing the two different interventions in Ivory Coast and in Mali.Show less
