Setting Priorities: Algeria’s Foreign Policy and Opportunities for Moscow

... approaches. Paradoxically, Algeria’s relations with the Sahel nations turn out to be a crooked mirror of Europe’s relations with the Maghreb – just as the European exteriorization of North Africa exasperates the Maghreb elites, the new elites of the Sahel states do not like Algeria’s tendency to view their region exclusively as a source of challenges and threats. Russia’s assistance to the Sahel states has caused some resentment in Algeria. The problem for Algeria, however, is that, unlike the situation with French intervention ...