Globalizing Somalia

Introduction Emma Leonard & Gilbert Ramsay SECTION ONE: THE FAILURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL The United Nations, Peacekeeping, and the Globalization of the Conflict in Somalia Kate Seaman Contextual Disconnect: The Failure of the 'International Community' in Somalia Karl Sandstrom SECTION TWO: THE RISE OF THE TRANSNATIONAL Is all Jihad Local? Transnational Contention and Political Violence in Somalia Peter S. Henne Involving Foreign Fighters in Somalia David Malet, Bryan Priest, & Sarah Staggs Somali Piracy and International Crime Peter Lehr SECTION THREE: THE NEW MULTIPOLAR POLITICS AS A RESPONSE TO TRANSNATIONAL DISORDER Re-crossing the Mogadishu Line: U.S. Policy toward Somalia 1994-2012 Michael J. Boyle Somalia-China Relations: China Claiming its Place as a Global Actor? Monika Thakur Japan's Aspirations as a Global Security Actor: the anti-piracy mission off Somalia and the dynamics of Great Power intervention Yee-Kuang Heng Opposing Interests? The Geopolitics of the Horn of Africa Stig Jarle Hansen The European Union Comprehensive Intervention in Somalia: Turning Ploughs into Swords? Maria-Luisa Sanchez-Barrueco SECTION FOUR: RE-IMAGINING INTERVENTION - MUST HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF IN SOMALIA? Identity, Stability, and the Somali State: Indigenous Forms and External Intervention Michael Walls & Steve Kibble Conclusion Gilbert Ramsay & Emma Leonard Bibliography Index

Gilbert Ramsay works at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews, UK. An Arabic speaker, he has previously written reports on terrorism and the Internet for the United Nations and the European Union. Emma Leonard was Assistant to the Dean of Development Studies at Mbarara University, Uganda. She earned a post-graduate degree in African Studies (MSc Hons) at Oxford University before joining the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She is now pursuing her doctoral research at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

With extensive information and rich analyses, this book contributes a great deal to our understanding of how the Somali conflict has been transformed into a transnational issue with various forms of intervention by global and regional powers as well as international organizations. Kidane Mengisteab, Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Pennsylvania State University, US and author of Anatomy of an African Tragedy: Political, Economic and Foreign Policy Crisis in Post-Independence Eritrea (2005)