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Social SciencesPolitical ScienceSociologyPolitical SociologyPolitics In OrganizationsSocial MovementsCivil SocietyNational IdentityOrganizational PoliticsSocial CapitalSocial Movement TheoryTerrorist OrganizationsCommunity-based OrganizationsCorporate Identity CommunicationEconomic Stability AnalysisInsurgent Social NetworksNationalist IntellectualsTerrorist Group NetworksTerrorist Group OrganizationTerrorist Organizational Networks
How the US has chosen to carry out and rhetoricize its War on Terror with the Malian government has had important consequences for the political and economic stability of northern Mali. Pre-existing political and economic disparities have grown since 2002, spurring deeper social and cultural shifts and bringing a group of young, reformist Muslim intellectuals to leadership roles in new kinds of community-based organizations. The author explores these processes and their implications for social networks and corporate identity in Malian society north of the Niger Bend.