Main conflict-generating factors in the countries of North-West Africa

In this scientific article, the author examined the main factors in the development of regional conflicts in North-West Africa. Any conflict in this region arises on a local scale and develops into a confrontation at the sub-regional level. Under the influence of a complex of factors, these processes affect the interests of both border countries and geopolitical actors. All of them contribute to either resolving conflicts or prolonging them. The goal is to find the reasons that contribute to the formation of the so-called crisis center in this region. Here, the geopolitical interests of various major international actors collide. The author concludes that these major geopolitical players claim not only control over these countries, but also over economic resources. In turn, this threatens global food security, given by the unfavorable natural and climatic conditions in this region. The growth of conflicts to interstate and regional scales acquires a self-reproducing character. They often accelerate and form their own dynamics in certain logical patterns. The situation in the region of North-West Africa throughout the 21st century clearly demonstrates all these tendencies of the transition of local conflicts to the regional level with the simultaneous complication of their control. The latter in the chronological approach shows the leveling of the initial causes of the conflict and the complexity of the factors contributing to the development of interstate confrontation.