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This special issue of Geopolitics has been put together at the time of the mass demonstrations sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black US citizens, as well as of acts of symbolic toppling of statues that glorify Europe’s dark colonial past. A slogan in bold bright blue letters on a protest banner at a demonstration in Italy in 2020 stood out and found its way into the media. ‘From the Mediterranean to Minneapolis, under water or under a knee, I can’t breathe’ (Sunderland Citation2020). It links racialised structural violence in the US with the European anti-migration context by making a clear reference to the European Union and its member states’ silent acceptance of the mass drownings of men, women and children attempting to cross the Mediterranean.1 In a context where the EU has abandoned maritime rescue missions while funding the Libyan coastguard’s pull-back operations, and where NGO humanitarian search and rescue operations are increasingly criminalised (Lloyd-Damnjanovic Citation2020) this is particularly topical.
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The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was established in 2013 to support Mali’s peace process. It represents an emerging practice of deploying UN peacekeeping missions in asymmetrical conflict environments where there is no peace to keep. While MINUSMA represents Europe’s return to peacekeeping, the largest troop contributors by a wide margin are African countries. Through exploring the task of securing mission convoys to the northern regions of the country, Signe Cold-Ravnkilde, Peter Albrecht and Rikke Haugegaard show how inequalities between European and African soldiers shape the distribution of death, danger and supplies in what has been named the world’s deadliest UN mission.
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