{"id":2223,"date":"2020-08-25T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T11:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:29:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T11:29:22","slug":"yvan-guichaoua-cited-in-associated-press-article-about-french-troops-in-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/08\/25\/yvan-guichaoua-cited-in-associated-press-article-about-french-troops-in-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Yvan Guichaoua cited in Associated Press article about French troops in Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond security, \u201cthe French want, I think, to stay influential in their former colonies and have this leadership in this sort of global division of labor\u201d by major powers, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/brussels\/people\/2614\/guichaoua-yvan\">Yvan Guichaoua<\/a>, a Sahel expert at the University of Kent\u2019s Brussels School of International Studies. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to perpetuate the narrative of French grandeur among French public opinion &#8230; We\u2019re still a big power.\u201d But, he cautioned, \u201cThe longer you stay, the greater the chance that you become part of the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yvan was quoted in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/89dbef60ab8bfa0d70bd6491b4027c37\">Associated Press News article<\/a> by Elaine Ganley,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond security, \u201cthe French want, I think, to stay influential in their former colonies and have this leadership in this sort of global division of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/08\/25\/yvan-guichaoua-cited-in-associated-press-article-about-french-troops-in-mali\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}