Michael Woldemariam

Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

This extended treatment of insurgent fragmentation provides an innovative new theory tested through analysis of the Horn of Africa's civil wars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781108423250
• ISBN-10: 1108423256
• Artikelnr.: 48955397

Autorenporträt

Michael Woldemariam is an Assistant Professor of international relations at Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies. His research focuses on the dynamics of armed conflict, the behavior of rebel organizations, and post-conflict institution building. He has special expertise on the Horn of Africa region, where he has travelled extensively. His research has been published in Terrorism and Political Violence, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and is forthcoming in a number of edited volumes, and he has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Bradley Foundation, the Truman National Security Project, and a research specialist with the Innovations for Successful Societies program at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theory and Concepts: 1. Organized rebellion and its intractable problem; 2. A theory of rebel fragmentation; Part II. Rebellion in Ethiopia and Eritrea: 3. The Eritrean Liberation Front: 'Jebha' in action
1960-1982; 4. The Eritrean People's Liberation Front: 'Shaebia' in action
1972-1991; 5. The second wave of rebellion: Tigrayans
Oromos
Afars
and Somalis
1975-2008; Part III. Rebel Fragmentation in the Broader Horn: 6. The long war in Somalia: the Somali National Movement
Islamic Courts Union
and Harakat al-Shabaab al Mujahidin
1981-2013; 7. Concluding thoughts.