The China-Africa Research Initiative published in August 2020 a study titled "Development, Security, and China's Evolving Role in Mali" by Lina Benabdallah and Daniel Large.
The study explores the links between development and security in the context of conflict to understand the extent to which China's security approach in Africa is adequately conceptualized, successful, or challenged. It finds that China's development-for-security approach has pronounced limitations when applied in Mali.
