... of California Michael Woldemariam Eritrea Ethiopia Horn Africa Somalia Sudan Djibouti peace development democratization trade borders Gulf states Abiy Ahmed Ali Isaias Afwerki 181 [T]urning the page on decades of conflict and underdevelopment in the Horn of Africa will require...

... conflict Uhuru Kenyatta Raila Odinga Supreme Court Jubilee Party National Super Alliance NASA institutions Somalia al-Shabaab 187 [T]he conflicts surrounding the 2017 elections severely eroded the integrity of democracy in Kenya. Another Disputed Election Batters Kenya s Institutions K...

... History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Ken Menkhaus book review Mayor Mogadishu Andrew Harding Somalia Mogadishu Mohamed “Tarzan” Nur al-Shabaab One of the most maddeningly difficult tasks for a chronicler of contemporary Somalia...

... responsibility protect Libya Barack Obama mass atrocities Syria Libya Somalia Rwanda 322 PERSPECTIVE determining whether, when, where, and why to intervene to protect civilians caught in the crosshairs of war and vio- lence increasingly is guided by the responsibil- ity to protect (R2P...

...Ken Menkhaus While transitional politics and the war against Al Shabab are dominating headlines, … a combination of intense pressures is making subsistence livelihoods less and less viable and producing massive, irreversible migrations with enormous long-term implications for Somalia and Kenya. ©...

... Villalón Islam Africa democracy sharia terrorism Somalia Nigeria diversity 187 [T]he effort to try to distinguish between good and bad Muslim ideologies may be much less important than the need to support functional political institutions. Between Democracy and Militancy: Islam in Africa...

...William W. Finan, Jr. A freelance journalist living in Somalia studied the buccaneers who have seized ships in the Gulf of Aden and captured the attention of navies and news media. The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World , by Jay Bahadur . Pantheon , 2011 . © 2012 Current...

...Ken Menkhaus One lesson learned since September 11 is that the expanded war on terrorism has created a lens that tends to distort our vision of the complex political dynamics of countries like Somalia. Local political realities are not always assessed in their own right, but instead are interpreted...