TY - JOUR ID - 86029 TI - Geopolitical Expounding of Africa’s Conflicts since the End of Cold War (Case Study: The States Located between 0 to 15th Parallel North) JO - Journal of World Sociopolitical Studies JA - WSPS LA - en SN - 2588-3119 AU - Mirzaei Tabar, Meysam AU - Hafeznian, Mohammad Reza AU - Safavi, Seyed Yahya AU - Azami, Hadi AD - Assistant Professor of Geopolitics, Center for African Studies, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran AD - Professor of Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran AD - Professor of Political Geography, Imam Hussein University, Tehran, Iran AD - Associate Professor of Geography, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 603 EP - 658 KW - Africa KW - boundary KW - Conflict KW - Ethnicity KW - Geopolitics KW - Religion DO - 10.22059/wsps.2022.331134.1240 N2 - A conflict can involve anything from a personal disagreement between two people to the emergence of a world war. When a conflict arises, a combination of the main components of geopolitics (geography, politics and power) plays a role in its formation. Thus, the roots of the conflict can be explained in the frame of the principles of geopolitics. Most of the conflicts in Africa occur in 0-15 degrees north. The current study is a work of “basic research”. In terms of nature and method, it is “descriptive” and in terms of attitude, it falls in the category of “descriptive-analytic” research. Data gathering was done by a documentary method and through consulting library resources. The data analysis method was qualitative. The research set out to find an answer to the following question: “From a geopolitical point of view, which factors affect interstate and intrastate conflicts in circle 0 to 15th parallel north of Africa?” The current study has explained the roots of the conflicts from a geopolitical perspective through studying the conflicts in circle 0 to 15th parallel north of Africa. This study led to the presentation and introduction of 26 geopolitical root causes for conflicts. UR - https://wsps.ut.ac.ir/article_86029.html L1 - https://wsps.ut.ac.ir/article_86029_e2c8475ba12f4558db137f93e3e8ca0a.pdf ER -