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This extended treatment of insurgent fragmentation provides an innovative new theory tested through analysis of the Horn of Africa's civil wars.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
Insurgent fragmentation is central to the dynamics of contemporary civil wars. This book is one of the few extended treatments of this phenomenon and will be of interest to both scholarly and non-scholarly audiences interested in the evolution and behaviour of insurgent groups, and conflict dynamics in war zones around the world.
