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1 online resource (x, 70 pages) |
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text file PDF rda |
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Title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed November 18, 2013). |
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"November 2013." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-70). |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Identity and legitimacy among the Somali -- From union to fragmentation : a brief history of modern Somalia -- The failure of the transitional federal government -- AMISOM : peacekeepers with no peace to keep -- The Islamist insurgents -- The Somalia that works : "bottom-up" versus "top-down" -- Famine changes the game? -- AMISOM turns the tide, al-Shabaab mutates -- Another Somali government -- A lesson about legitimacy and the limits of military force in counterinsurgency -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
For more than 2 decades, Somalia has been the prime example of a collapsed state, resisting multiple attempts to reconstitute a central government, with the current internationally-backed regime of the "Federal Republic of Somalia" struggling just to maintain its hold on the capital and the southeastern littoral -- thanks only to the presence of a more than 17,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force. Despite the desultory record, the apparent speedy collapse since late 2011 of the insurgency spearheaded by the Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (Movement of Warrior Youth, al-Shabaab) -- a militant Islamist movement with al-Qaeda links -- has made it fashionable within some political and military circles to cite with little nuance the "Somalia model" as a prescription for other conflicts in Africa, including the fight in Mali against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its allies. This monograph takes a closer look at the situation in order to draw out the real lessons from the failures and successes of the counterinsurgency effort in Somalia. |
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African Union Mission in Somalia.
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Shabaab (Organization)
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Failed states -- Somalia.
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Insurgency -- Somalia.
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Counterinsurgency -- Somalia.
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Somalia -- Politics and government -- 1991-
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Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, publisher.
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Army War College (U.S.). Press, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pham, John-Peter. State collapse, insurgency, and counterinsurgency 1584875941 (OCoLC)865544781 |
| ISBN |
1584875941 |
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9781584875949 |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 370366972 |
| Gpo Item No. |
0307-A-31 (online) |
| Sudoc No. |
D 101.146:IN 7/4 |
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