The Somalia Conflict Revisited

Author : Israel Nyaburi Nyadera,Nazmul Islam,Billy Agwanda
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 303155731X

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The Somalia Conflict Revisited by Israel Nyaburi Nyadera,Nazmul Islam,Billy Agwanda Pdf

This book aims to examine how informality of spatial governance has influenced the evolution of the conflict in Somalia and the region. It not only reopens the debate over how the irregular conflicts can transcend national boundaries, but also presents the complexities of spatial governance on national and regional security. The book examines how socio-political and identity bonds play out in spatial governance sometimes resulting to informal control of vast national territories. The book argues that such informally governed spaces increase the level of security threat vulnerability at the national and regional levels. The book therefore adds to the existing literature which has not only to be dominated by discourses on the impact of identity on the conflict but also fall short of connecting the impact of informal spatial governance on security. Examining how informality in governance in one country can impact on the security of an entire region is a key consideration in emerging peacebuilding strategies.

Author : Israel Nyaburi Nyadera
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031557323

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The Somalia Conflict Revisited by Israel Nyaburi Nyadera Pdf

Author : Oliver O'Donovan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521538998

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The Just War Revisited by Oliver O'Donovan Pdf

Leading political theologian Oliver O'Donovan takes a fresh look at some traditional moral arguments about war. Christians differ widely on this issue. The book re-examines questions of contemporary urgency, including the use of biological and nuclear weapons, military intervention, economic sanctions, and the role of the UN. It opens with a challenging dedication to the new Archbishop of Canterbury and proceeds to shed light on vital topics with which that Archbishop and others will be very directly engaged. It should be read by anyone concerned with the ethics of warfare.

Author : John A. Vasquez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521881791

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The War Puzzle Revisited by John A. Vasquez Pdf

A scientific explanation of the onset and expansion of war and the conditions of peace.

Author : Sabina Widmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004469617

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Switzerland and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Cold War, 1967-1979 by Sabina Widmer Pdf

In Switzerland and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Cold War, 1967-1979, Sabina Widmer analyses Swiss foreign policy in Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Somalia in the late 1960s and 1970s, at the crossroads of the global East-West confrontation and decolonisation. Focusing on the independence wars in Angola and Mozambique, the Angolan War and the Ogaden War as well as regime changes that brought Soviet-allied governments to power, this book sheds new light on Switzerland’s role in the Third World during the Cold War. Based on extensive multi-archival research, it exposes the limits of neutrality in North-South relations, reveals the growing marge de manoeuvre of small states during Détente, and highlights the role of non-state actors in the making of foreign policy.

Author : Fantahun Ayele
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810130111

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The Ethiopian Army by Fantahun Ayele Pdf

The Ethiopian popular revolution of 1974 ended a monarchy that claimed descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and brought to power a military government that created one of the largest and best-equipped armies in Africa. In his panoramic study of the Ethiopian army, Fantahun Ayele draws upon his unprecedented access to Ethiopian Ministry of Defense archives to study the institution that was able to repel the Somali invasion of 1977 and suppress internal uprisings, but collapsed in 1991 under the combined onslaught of armed insurgencies in Eritrea and Tigray. Besides military operations, The Ethiopian Army discusses tactical areas such as training, equipment, intelligence, and logistics, as well as grand strategic choices such as ending the 1953 Ethio-American Mutual Defense Agreement and signing a treaty of military assistance with the Soviet Union. The result sheds considerable light on the military developments that have shaped Ethiopia and the Horn in the twentieth century.

Author : Kenneth Michael Pollack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190906962

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Armies of Sand by Kenneth Michael Pollack Pdf

Armies of Sand asks, 'why have Arab militaries fought so poorly in the modern era?' It examines the performance of over two-dozen Arab militaries from 1948 to 2017, and compares them to a half-dozen non-Arab militaries, to conclude that politics, economics, and culture all contributed to the past weakness of Arab armies.

Author : Idil Osman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319577920

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Media, Diaspora and the Somali Conflict by Idil Osman Pdf

This book illustrates how diasporic media can re-create conflict by transporting conflict dynamics and manifesting them back in to diaspora communities. Media, Diaspora and Conflict demonstrates a previously overlooked complexity in diasporic media by using the Somali conflict as a case study to indicate how the media explores conflict in respective homelands, in addition to revealing its participatory role in transnationalising conflicts. By illustrating the familiar narratives associated with diasporic media and utilising a combination of Somali websites and television, focus groups with diaspora community members and interviews with journalists and producers, the potentials and restrictions of diasporic media and how it relates to homelands in conflict are explored.

Author : Christopher L. Daniels
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780810883116

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Somali Piracy and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa by Christopher L. Daniels Pdf

The first contribution to Global Flashpoints: A Scarecrow Press Series, Christopher Daniels’ Somali Piracy and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa provides readers with a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the spate of piracy and terrorism plaguing the waters of Somalia and the global threat posed by this activity. Contesting the commonly held perception that the piracy and terrorism occurring in Somalia are two separate and unrelated activities, Daniels reveals how the collapse of the Somali state and the chaos that has ensued created the environment for piracy and terrorism to flourish in combination. He also notes how the failure to restore a functioning central government has allowed both to become dangerous threats not only to the people of Somalia but the entire world. Underscoring Somalia’s dire state, Somali Piracy and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa lays out for readers such significant topics as the reasons behind the collapse of the Somali state and the secession of Somaliland, Puntland, and Jubaland; the rise of internationally-linked terrorist groups, such as Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam; and the dramatic spike in pirate attacks off the Somali coast. Daniels concludes by critiquing the methods that have been used to help alleviate these global security challenges and gives policy recommendations for future consideration. Designed to enhance readers’ grasp of this global flashpoint, this volume includes a timeline, a glossary of terms, biographical entries on key individual and institutional actors in this conflict, and selected primary sources. It is the ideal introduction to students and scholars of international relations, African history and politics, terrorism, and maritime studies.

Author : Neal G. Jesse,John R. Dreyer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498509701

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Small States in the International System by Neal G. Jesse,John R. Dreyer Pdf

Small States in the International System addresses the little understood foreign policy choices of small states. It outlines a theoretical perspective of small states that starts from the assumption that small states are not just large states writ small. In essence, small states behave differently from larger and more powerful states. As such, this book compares three theories of foreign policy choice: realism (and its emphasis on structural factors), domestic factors, and social constructivism (emphasizing norms and identity) across seven focused case studies from around the world in the 20th Century. Through an examination of the foreign policy choices of Switzerland, Ireland, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ethiopia, Somalia, Vietnam, Bolivia and Paraguay, this book concludes that realist theories built on great power politics cannot adequately explain small state behavior in most instances. When small states are threatened by larger, belligerent states, the small state behaves along the predictions of social constructivist theory; when small states threaten each other, they behave along realist predictions.

Author : Martin Van Creveld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439188897

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Transformation of War by Martin Van Creveld Pdf

At a time when unprecedented change in international affairs is forcing governments, citizens, and armed forces everywhere to re-assess the question of whether military solutions to political problems are possible any longer, Martin van Creveld has written an audacious searching examination of the nature of war and of its radical transformation in our own time. For 200 years, military theory and strategy have been guided by the Clausewitzian assumption that war is rational - a reflection of national interest and an extension of politics by other means. However, van Creveld argues, the overwhelming pattern of conflict in the post-1945 world no longer yields fully to rational analysis. In fact, strategic planning based on such calculations is, and will continue to be, unrelated to current realities. Small-scale military eruptions around the globe have demonstrated new forms of warfare with a different cast of characters - guerilla armies, terrorists, and bandits - pursuing diverse goals by violent means with the most primitive to the most sophisticated weapons. Although these warriors and their tactics testify to the end of conventional war as we've known it, the public and the military in the developed world continue to contemplate organized violence as conflict between the super powers. At this moment, armed conflicts of the type van Creveld describes are occurring throughout the world. From Lebanon to Cambodia, from Sri Lanka and the Philippines to El Salvador, the Persian Gulf, and the strife-torn nations of Eastern Europe, violent confrontations confirm a new model of warfare in which tribal, ethnic, and religious factions do battle without high-tech weapons or state-supported armies and resources. This low-intensity conflict challenges existing distinctions between civilian and solder, individual crime and organized violence, terrorism and war. In the present global atmosphere, practices that for three centuries have been considered uncivilized, such as capturing civilians or even entire communities for ransom, have begun to reappear. Pursuing bold and provocative paths of inquiry, van Creveld posits the inadequacies of our most basic ideas as to who fights wars and why and broaches the inevitability of man's need to "play" at war. In turn brilliant and infuriating, this challenge to our thinking and planning current and future military encounters is one of the most important books on war we are likely to read in our lifetime.

Author : Timothy Raeymaekers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137333995

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Violence on the Margins by Timothy Raeymaekers Pdf

This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.

Author : I. M. Lewis
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1569021058

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Peoples of the Horn of Africa by I. M. Lewis Pdf

This book has, from its first publication, been an essential reference tool for research of any aspect of society, history and culture in this part of Africa. Originally published in 1955 as part of the International African Institute's landmark Ethnographic Survey of Africa series, it was reprinted in 1969 with a new bibliography. This new edition contains further supplemental and previously unpublished material based on Professor Lewis' later field research on land-holding systems in the Somali reverine regions.

Author : John Idriss Lahai,Karin von Strokirch,Howard Brasted,Helen Ware
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319907499

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Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States by John Idriss Lahai,Karin von Strokirch,Howard Brasted,Helen Ware Pdf

The book examines the various ways that fragile states (or states with limited statehood) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas have adopted, and adapted to, the processes of liberal political governance in their quests to address the problem of political fragility. It presents the stories of resilience in the political adaptation to Western liberal conceptions of governance. In addition to singular or comparative country case studies, this project also examines the interplay of culture, identities, and politics in the creation of people-centric governance reforms. Towards these ends, this volume sheds light on weak states’ often constructive engagement in the promotion of state governance with a variety of political conditions, adverse or otherwise; and their ability to remain resilient despite the complex political, sociocultural, and economic challenges affecting them. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the authors aim to counter the noticeable shortcomings in the discursive representations of fragility, and to contribute a more balanced examination of the narratives about and impact of political adaption and governance in people’s lives and experiences.

Author : Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135764845

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Clausewitz and African War by Isabelle Duyvesteyn Pdf

Oil, diamonds, timber, food aid - just some of the suggestions put forward as explanations for African wars in the past decade. Another set of suggestions focuses on ethnic and clan considerations. These economic and ethnic or clan explanations contend that wars are specifically not fought by states for political interests with mainly conventional military means, as originally suggested by Carl von Clausewitz in the 19th century. This study shows how alternative social organizations to the state can be viewed as political actors using war as a political instrument.