Valdai Club

Over the past decades, the Sahara-Sahel Region has been building its security architecture by primarily focusing and relying on pro-Western frameworks and approaches. This was largely attributable to the fact that even having put the decolonisation behind it, this part of the African continent remained under France’s tutelage and within its sphere of influence.

The ongoing geopolitical crisis has given Algeria a unique opportunity to establish itself on the European gas market, yet the country’s long-term prospects depend on sound strategic planning and its ability to adapt to the European Union’s “energy transition”, argues Alena Lisenkova, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University and the Faculty of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University.

The diametrically opposed priorities of the key participants in the so-called Government of National Unity pose virtually no obstacle to the preservation of South Africa's historic foreign policy orientations, writes Alena Lisenkova, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University and the Faculty of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University.