s Through a close textual analysis of US diplomatic cables and other relevant documents, this article provides new empirical data to trace the mutual construction of Mali as a site of terrorist threat. It argues that this mutual construction paradoxically enhanced the agency of Malian foreign policy elites in negotiations with their US interlocutors and highlights the effectiveness of Malian deployment of this discourse to shape the terms upon which intervention took place in the 2002–2012 period. It shifts the focus of the analysis of intervention in Mali both in space and in time through centering the US–Mali relationship pre-2012, displacing the dominant post-2013 France–Mali frame. This opens up a new dialectical and interimperial perspective on the agency of the Malian foreign policy elite in shaping the terms upon which intervention took place. This demonstrates the need for both a wider lens and a longer historical scope on investigations of intervention, particularly relevant as this discourse of terrorist threat has since 2013 spread beyond Mali to the wider Sahel region.

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马里恐怖主义威胁的构建：干预的机构和叙述

通过对美国外交电报和其他相关文件的仔细文本分析，本文为追溯马里作为恐怖主义威胁场所的相互构建提供了新的实证数据。它认为，这种相互建构自相矛盾地增强了马里外交政策精英在与美国对话者谈判中的影响力，并突显了马里利用这一话语来制定 2002-2012 年期间干预条款的有效性。它通过以 2012 年之前的美国与马里关系为中心，在空间和时间上转移了对马里干预分析的焦点，取代了 2013 年之后法国与马里的主导框架。这为马里外交政策精英在制定干预条件方面的作用开辟了新的辩证和帝国间视角。这表明需要更广泛的视角和更长期的历史范围来调查干预行为，这一点尤其重要，因为这种关于恐怖主义威胁的言论自 2013 年以来已从马里蔓延到更广泛的萨赫勒地区。