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Strategic Shortfall: The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11(Praeger Security International)

Strategic Shortfall: The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11(Praeger Security International)


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This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states, led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11 attacks.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, this book argues, it was not the 9/11 attacks that transformed the international security environment. Instead, it was "Somali Syndrome," an aversion to intervening in failed states that began in the wake of the1993 U.S./UN action in Somalia. The botched raid precipitated America's strategic retreat from its post-Cold War experiment at partnership with the UN in nation-building and peace enforcement and engendered U.S. paralysis in the face of genocide in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. The ensuing international security vacuum emboldened al-Qaeda to emerge and attack America and inaugurated our present era of intrastate conflict, mass killings, forced relocations, and international terrorism.

As this even-handed treatment shows, the Somali crisis can be connected to seven key features of the emerging post-Cold War world security order. These include the fact that failed states are now the main source of world instability and that new wars are driven by racial, ethnic, and religious identity issues.



Table of Contents:

Foreword by Martin N. Stanton
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. The New Global Context and the Disintegration of the Somali State
2. About Face: President Bush's Decision to Intervene in Somalia
3. A Shattered Hope: The U.S.-UN Intervention in Somalia
4. What If? The Alternative History of Australian Involvement in Somalia
5. The Somalia Syndrome and the Rise of al Qaeda
6. Too Little Too Late: Clinton's Growing Fears about al Qaeda and the Long Shadow of the Somalia Syndrome
7. What Threat? Bush's Retreat to the Mogadishu Line and the Countdown to the 9/11 Attacks
8. Conclusion: America's Strategic Shortfall
Notes
Index



About the Author :
Robert G. Patman is professor of politics and director of international studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is coeditor of the Praeger Security International series Ethics of American Foreign Policy.

Review :
Recommended. General readers and lower-division undergraduate students.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780275993627
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Praeger Security International
  • ISBN-10: 0275993620
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 185
  • Sub Title: The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11


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