Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos is a Doctor in Political Science and a Professor at the French Institute of Geopolitics in the University of Paris 8. A specialist on armed conflicts in Africa south of the Sahara, he graduated from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (IEP), where he teaches, and is a researcher at the Institut de recherche pourle développement (IRD). He lived for several years in Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. He has published some eighty articles and books.





