
State Collapse, Insurgency, and Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Somalia (Enlarged Edition)
Lessons from Somalia (Enlarged Edition)
Lulu.com (Publisher)
Published on 3. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
82 pages
978-1-304-87159-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
237 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-304-87159-6 (9781304871596)
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