State collapse, insurgency, and counterinsurgency : lessons from Somalia / J. Peter Pham.
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 th...
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Carlisle, PA :
Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press,
[2013]
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Table of 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.