Dr. Wolfram Lacher

• Wolfram Lacher

Chad’s Crisis-Prone Transition

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Dynastic consolidation and its risks

doi:10.18449/2022C67

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• Wolfram Lacher

A Most Irregular Army

The Rise of Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces

doi:10.18449/2020WP12

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• Benedikt Erforth
• Anna Hörter
• Wolfram Lacher
• Lisa Tschörner

Megatrends and Conflict Dynamics in Africa: Multipolarity and Delegation in Foreign Interventions

Megatrends such as climate change, digitalisation, and urbanisation are transforming all aspects of politics, economics and society in Africa. Consequently, they are also affecting conflict dynamics. This Working Paper focuses specifically on how megatrends are altering patterns of foreign intervention in African conflicts. Two aspects stand out: the range of intervening powers is widening, and they are intervening increasingly at arm’s length by delegating to human or technical surrogates.

doi:10.18449/2022MTA-WP02

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• Wolfram Lacher

African Conflicts amid Multipolarity: Implications of a Changing Actor Landscape

The range of external actors intervening in internal conflicts on the African continent has undergone a noticeable change. Three states in particular are intervening in a growing number of African conflicts: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkey, and Russia. Their expanding footprint shows that the multipolar disorder that has characterised wars in the Middle East now also affects much of Africa.

doi:10.18449/2022MTA-PB03

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