Getting Somalia wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State

About the author
Maps
	1.1 Somalia
	1.2 ‘Greater Somalia’ and geographical distribution of major clans
	1.3 Main sub-divisions of Somali territory
	4.1 Reach of Somali pirate attacks, 2005–10
Figure
	1.1 Somali clan families
Photographs
	1 Displaced woman and child in Mogadishu famine zone, August 2011
	2 Women soldiers in the transitional government army
	3 Displaced boy in Mogadishu plays with a gun madefrom a stick
	4 Al-Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu
	5 Mogadishu after the withdrawal of al-Shabaab, September 2011
	6 ‘Pavement banker’ in Hargeisa
	7 Women police officers in Somaliland
	8 Somali pirate, Ismail Elixh
	9 An al-Shabaab fighter distributes food parcels in Lower Shabelle famine zone, September 2011
	10 Displaced people queue for food rations in Mogadishu
	11 Somali trader in an Eastleigh shopping mall
Acknowledgements
Author\'s Note
Chronology
Glossary
Introduction
1 | Clan and Country
	Map 1.1 Somalia
	Resources
	Nomads
	Poetry
	Qat
	Greater Somalia
		Map 1.2 ‘Greater Somalia’ and geographical distribution of major clans
		Map 1.3 Main sub-divisions of Somali territory
	The clan
		Figure 1.1 Somali clan families
2 | History
	Pre-colonial
	Colonial
	Independence
	Dictatorship
	State collapse
	Intervention
	‘Virtual’ government
	Alternative authority
3 | Islamism
	Origins
	Al-Itihaad
	Union of Islamic Courts
	Al-Shabaab
	Importing and exporting jihad
4 | A Failed State?
	Mini-states
	The economy
	Livestock
	Money transfer and telecommunications
	Somaliland
5 | Piracy
	Map 4.1 Reach of Somali pirate attacks, 2005–10
	The Sirius Star
	Myths and misconceptions
	Pirate economy
	Lifestyle
	Structure
	Links with radical Islamists
	The best option?
	What do you do with a pirate when you catch one?
	The longer it goes on …
6 | Somalia and the Outside World
	Somalia and the ‘War on Terror’
	The Ethiopian invasion
	The mission backfires
	The Islamists take hold
	The challenge of aid
	Regional implications
	Ethiopia and Eritrea
	Yemen
	Kenya
Conclusion
Notes
	Introduction
	1 Clan and country
	2 History
	3 Islamism
	4 A failed state?
	5 Piracy
	6 Somalia and the outsideworld
	Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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