Strategic Shortfall : The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11.

By: Patman, Robert GMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Praeger Security International SerPublisher: Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (205 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781573567268Subject(s): Somalia Affair, 1992-1997 - InfluenceGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Strategic Shortfall : The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11DDC classification: 355/.03307309049 LOC classification: DT407.42.P38 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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