Author: Tamara L. Britton
Publisher: Checkerboard Books
Keywords: countries, somalia
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2002-09
List price: $25.65
ISBN-10: 1577658442
ISBN-13: 9781577658443

Author: Ali Jimale Ahmed
Publisher: Red Sea Press
Keywords: somalia, invention
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 1995-03
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0932415997
ISBN-13: 9780932415998

Authors:Graf, Mike,
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: world, countries, somalia
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $21.26
ISBN-10: 0736811087
ISBN-13: 9780736811088

Provides an introduction to the geography, culture, food, animals, sports, and holidays of Somalia.

Author: Kenneth R. Rutherford
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Keywords: somalia, intervention, fire, humanitarianism
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-07-20
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1565492609
ISBN-13: 9781565492608

The international humanitarian intervention in Somalia was one of the most challenging operations ever conducted by US and UN military forces. Until Somalia, the UN had never run a Chapter VII exercise with large numbers of troops operating under a fighting mandate. It became a deadly test of the UN s ability carry out a peace operation using force against an adversary determined to sabotage the intervention.Humanitarianism Under Fire is a candid, detailed historical and political narrative of this remarkably complicated intervention that was one of the first cases of multilateral action in th

Author: Nina J. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc
Keywords: bibliography, history, issues, somalia
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 2002-03
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 1590332652
ISBN-13: 9781590332658

This country shares the status of Afghanistan until recently of being without a government. It also seems to be a possible nesting ground for members of the al-Qaeda terror network. Somalia has been in the world spotlight numerous times in the 1990s. This book brings together important issues of Somalia along with a brief version of its history and a selective bibliography.

Author: A. S. C. A. P.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: society, columbia, hurst, history, culture, somalia, somaliland, understanding
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-10-06
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0231700849
ISBN-13: 9780231700849

Ioan Lewis details the history and culture of the Somali people, providing a unique window into this little-known culture and its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the complex social, historical, and cultural hinterland that is the Somali heritage and pays close attention to the pervasive influence of traditional nomadism, especially its extremely decentralized nature.Lewis also addresses developments in the Somali political region since the collapse of the Republic in 1991, including the formation and steady development of the democratic state of Somaliland. Though it

Author: Adam B. Lowther
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: afghanistan, psi, reports, somalia, lebanon, asymmetric, conflict, americans
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0275996352
ISBN-13: 9780275996352

As the War in Iraq continues to rage, many in the White House, State Department, Department of Defense, and outside government are left to wonder if it was possible to foresee the difficulty the United States is currently having with Sunni nationalists and Islamic extremists. Recent American military experience offers significant insight into this question. With the fog of the Cold War finally lifting and clarity returning to the nature of conflict, the dominance of asymmetry in the military experience of the United States is all too evident.Lebanon (1982-1984), Somalia (1992-1994), and Afghan