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1 online resource (205 pages) |
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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 |
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7. What Threat? Bush's Retreat to the Mogadishu Line and the Countdown to the 9/11 Attacks8. Conclusion: America's Strategic Shortfall; Notes; Index |
| 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 emer |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993 -- Influence
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Somalia Affair, 1992-1997 -- Influence
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Security, International.
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National security -- United States.
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Diplomatic relations.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Military policy.
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National security.
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Security, International.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Military policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781573567268 |
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1573567264 |
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