Destabilising Interventions in Somalia: Sovereignty Transformations and Subversions

ISBN-13: 9780815358428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 164 str.

Debora Valentina Malito

Opis

This book provides a study of international intervention in Somalia, contesting the rigidity of the Failed State Narrative, as well those anchored to political and anthropological determinism that have overemphasised the role of clanism, Islam, state capacity as explanatory variables of the Somali crisis.

Spis treści

Part 1: How we think about Sovereignty and Intervention  1. Introduction  2. Minding the Gap: When State Weakness Justifies Intervention  3. Problems with International Intervention  Part 2: Interventions in Somalia  4. Neutral in Favour of Whom? The UN intervention in Somalia and the Somaliland peace process  5. Regional Mutual Interferences  6. Building Terror while Fighting Enemies during the Global War on Terrorism  7. The Politics of Destabilisation 

O autorze

Debora V. Malito is Lecturer in International Relations at Xi’an Jiaotong- Liverpool University, People’s Republic of China. She held research positions at the European University Institute and University of Cape Town, and her work intersect critical theory in International Relations and African security governance.