Senegalese-Bissau-Guinean relations : paternalism or new African cooperation

Bibliogr. s. 161-164. Publ. recenzowana

Since the beginning of the 1990s, excluding the period of the civil war in Guinea-Bissau (1998-1999), Senegalese-Bissau-Guinean cooperation has focused primarily on the border issues, with a focal point on common administration of disputed sea zone. However, today this cooperation has been involving the land border and customs service, as well education and culture. The article attempts to answer the question about the nature of Senegalese-Bissau-Guinean relations, seeking to determine whether it is justified to define them as new African cooperation or rather they should be seen only through the prism of Senegalese paternalism against smaller, politically and economically weaker, unstable neighbor. In the article the emphasis was placed on the historical context of the Guinea-Bissau’s statehood crisis and on the importance of the rebellion in Casamance, the historical region of Senegal bordering Guinea-Bissau, making them key points of reference for this analysis.