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Marie Sandnes

Doctoral Researcher

Email: marsan@prio.org
Mobile phone: +47 94891679
Website: no.linkedin.com

Research Interests

Doctoral research: military cooperation between the G5 Sahel joint force and external military actors in the Sahel.

Military cooperation and security force assistance
Organised violence and non-state actors
Counterinsurgency and counterterrorism
Regional cooperation and peacekeeping

Background

Education:

2018: One-year diploma, 'PGCE / PPU', University College of Østfold, NO
2016: MSc 'Conflict Studies', London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
2015: BSc (hons) 'Politics and International Relations', University of Bath, UK
2012: One-year diploma 'Culture Studies' in Ghana and India, OsloMet, NO

Languages:

Norwegian: native
English: fluent
French: basic

Research Groups

Full member:

PRIO Departments

Current

Global Politics, Norms and Society

Historical

Social Dynamics (2012-2022)

PRIO Projects

Ongoing:

Finished:

Events

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:30-10:00 – One Year after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – Geopolitical Impacts for Europe, the Middle East and Sahel
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:00-15:00 – Small States and Security Force Assistance: Practitioners’ Perspectives
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:00-11:45 – Women and Peacebuilding in Africa

PRIO started tracking events online in 2007. This listing is not complete. Past events may be mentioned in our news archive.

Recent Publications

Sandnes, Marie & Ilaria Carrozza (2023) Winds of Change? The Impact of Non-Western Powers’ Engagement in Afghanistan and the Sahel, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.

Sandnes, Marie (2022) Are We Seeing a Global Geopolitical Realignment? Statements, UN Votes, and Diplomatic Interactions after the Invasion of Ukraine, PRIO Policy Brief, 16. Oslo: PRIO.

Carrozza, Ilaria & Marie Sandnes (2022) China’s Engagement in West Africa: The Cases of Ghana and Senegal, PRIO Policy Brief, 9. Oslo: PRIO.

Sandnes, Marie (2022) Worsening Crisis in the Sahel: Food Security, Donor Priorities and Geopolitical Shifts, PRIO Policy Brief, 8. Oslo: PRIO.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Sandnes, Marie (2022) The relationship between the G5 Sahel Joint Force and external actors: a discursive interpretation, Canadian Journal of African Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2022.2058572.

Conference Paper

Marsh, Nicholas & Marie Sandnes (2019) Institutional Amnesia? A Long-Term Perspective on Remote Warfare, presented at Conceptualizing Remote Warfare: The Past, Present and Future, University of Kent, 28 February – 1 March.

PRIO Policy Brief

Sandnes, Marie (2022) Are We Seeing a Global Geopolitical Realignment? Statements, UN Votes, and Diplomatic Interactions after the Invasion of Ukraine, PRIO Policy Brief, 16. Oslo: PRIO.

Carrozza, Ilaria & Marie Sandnes (2022) China’s Engagement in West Africa: The Cases of Ghana and Senegal, PRIO Policy Brief, 9. Oslo: PRIO.

Sandnes, Marie (2022) Worsening Crisis in the Sahel: Food Security, Donor Priorities and Geopolitical Shifts, PRIO Policy Brief, 8. Oslo: PRIO.

Sandnes, Marie (2021) The G5 Sahel Joint Force: Operationalisation and Dependency on External Actors, PRIO Policy Brief, 5. Oslo: PRIO.

Carrozza, Ilaria & Marie Sandnes (2021) Studying Diversity in European Academia: Transparency and Access to Syllabi on African Politics, Peace and Conflict, PRIO Policy Brief, 3. Oslo: PRIO.

PRIO Paper

Sandnes, Marie & Ilaria Carrozza (2023) Winds of Change? The Impact of Non-Western Powers’ Engagement in Afghanistan and the Sahel, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.

Marsh, Nicholas; Øystein H. Rolandsen; Julian Karssen & Marie Sandnes (2020) Compounding Fragmentation: Security Force Assistance to Fragile States in the Sahel and Horn of Africa, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.

Rolandsen, Øystein H. & Marie Sandnes (2019) South-South Cooperation at the Advent of Great Power Competition: The Capacity of IGAD and ECOWAS to Deal with Threat Proliferation in Africa, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.

Elvebakken, Johanne Rokke & Marie Sandnes (2019) PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update - March 2019, PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update, 2019: PRIO.

Blog Posts

Russia, China and New Power Dynamics in the Sahel Region

Posted by Marie Sandnes & Ilaria Carrozza on Monday, 16 January 2023

France’s announcement to withdraw its forces from the Sahel in November 2022, alongside growing dissatisfaction with the nation’s presence in the region, opens the door for other actors to exercise greater influence in the Sahel and West Africa. As the security situation in the Sahel deteriorated dramatically over the past ... Read more »