Democracy Without Sovereignty in the Sahel: Power Fragmentation and the Blockage of Inclusive Development

Etienne Fakaba Sissoko ()
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Etienne Fakaba Sissoko: Université des sciences sociales et de gestion de Bamako - USSGB - Université des sciences sociales et de gestion de Bamako, CRAPES MALI - Centre de Recherche et d'Analyses Politiques, Economiques et Sociales du Mali, Faculté des Sciences économiques et de Gestion - USSGB - Université des sciences sociales et de gestion de Bamako

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Abstract: The democratic effects expected on inclusive development presuppose a public sovereignty integrated enough to bundle coercion, rule-making, and resource allocation within a common political order. Through a comparative analysis of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad, this article defines fragmented sovereignty as the conflictual dissociation of those functions across competing state and non-state actors. It reconstructs a causal chain linking state withdrawal, pluralized power centers, institutional capture, war-economy dynamics, authoritarian recentralization, and public misallocation. The argument also insists on a subnational reading of the Sahelian crisis through territorial gradients of citizenship, corridor sovereignty, and enclave recovery. Inclusive-development blockage therefore appears less as a simple problem of weak institutional design than as the effect of a functional disintegration of public power.

Keywords: fragmented sovereignty inclusive development state capacity war economy institutional capture Sahel; fragmented sovereignty; inclusive development; state capacity; war economy; institutional capture; Sahel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-04-21
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