Fighting for Peace in Somalia: A History and Analysis of the African Union Mission (Amisom), 2007-2017

ISBN-13: 9780198724544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 400 str.

Paul D. Williams

Opis

Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peace operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab.

Recenzje

Paul Williams ... has given us a comprehensive, richly-documented, and reliably sober account of the first ten years of the African Union's mission to the troubled country of Somalia. Lee Cassanelli, Journal of African Military History

O autorze

Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Dr Williams is also a Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York where he manages the Providing for Peacekeeping Project. Between 2014-15, Dr Williams served as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. His publications include War and Conflict in Africa, second edition (Polity, 2016), Understanding Peacekeeping, second edition (Polity, 2010), and Providing Peacekeepers (co-edited with A.J. Bellamy, OUP, 2013).