| The              Library of Congress>>Especially              for Researchers>>Research              Centers   Home >> Country             Studies >> SomaliaFindinFederal Research                      Division PagesResearchers                      Web PagesAll Library of Congress PagesA Country Study: Somalia**Library of Congress Call Number DT401.5                   .S68 1993**- Somalia  ForewordAcknowledgments
- Preface  Country                       Profile - Country  GeographySociety
- Economy  TransportationGovernment                           and Politics
- National                           Security    Introduction- Chapter                       1 - Historical Setting  (Said S. Samatar)                          - The                           Somalis: Their Origins, Migrations, and Settlement      - Coastal                               Towns  Emergence                               of AdalMogadishu                               and Its Banaadir Hinterlands
- The                               Somali Peninsula on the Eve of Imperial Partition  The                               Majeerteen SultanatesImperial                           Partition 
Mahammad                               Abdille Hasau's Dervish Resistance to Colonial Occupation
- Consolidation                               of Colonial Rule  Somalia                               During World War IIBritish                               Military Administration
- Trusteeship                               and Protectorate: The Road to Independence   From                           Independence to Revolution- Problems                               of National Integration  Pan-SomalismForeign                               Relations, 1960-69
- The                               Husseen Government  The                               Igaal GovernmentCoup                               d'Etat
- The                           Revolutionary Regime    - Supreme                               Revolutionary Council  Challenges                               to the RegimeSiad                               Barre and Scientific Socialism
- The                               Language and Literacy Issue  Creation                               of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist PartySomalia's                           Difficult Decade, 1980-90
Entrenching                               Siad Barre's Personal Rule
- Siad                               Barre's Repressive Measures  Persecution                               of the MajeerteenOppression                               of the Isaaq
- Harrying                               of the Hawiye       - Chapter                       2 - The Society and Its Environemnt  (Said S. Samatar)                           - Physical                           Setting         - Climate  Terrain,                               Vegetation, and DrainagePopulation                           and Settlement Patterns
- The                           Segmentary Social Order    - Samaal  Digil                               and RahanwaynRiverine                               and Coastal People of Non-Somali Origin
- Specialized                               Occupational Groups  Social                               ChangeLineage                           Segmentation and the Somali Civil War
- Religious                           Life     - The                               Tenets of Islam  Religious                               Roles in Somali IslamReligious                               Orders and the Cult of the Saints
- Folk                               Islam and Indigenous Ritual  Islam                               in the Colonial Era and AfterRising                               Islamism
- Languages                           and Education    - Language  EducationHealth
- Refugees  Breakdown                           of the Infrastructure- Chapter                       3 - The Economy  (David D. Laitin)                          - Pastoralism                           and the Commerce in Historical Perspective  The                           Colonial EconomyEconomic                           Development, 1960-69
- Scientific                           Socialism, 1970-75  The                           Socialist Revolution After 1975From                           Scientific Socialism to "IMF-ism," 1981-90
- Natural                           Resources and Economic Infrastructure    - Land  EnergyTransportation
- Communications   The                           "Real" Somali Economy in the 1980's- Export                               of Labor  Export                               of LivestockRural                               Subsistence Sector
- Urban                               Subsistence and Government Employment  Undeveloped                               Sectors- Plantation                                   Economy  MiningForestry
- Fishing  ManufacturingForeign                               Trade
Chapter                       4 - Government and Politics
 (Eric Hooglund)                       
Government                           Structure
Constitution
- Legislature  Local                               GovernmentLegal                               System
- Courts   Political                           Dynamics - Opposition                               Movements  Politics                               of ReconciliationPolitics                               of Succession
- Politics                               of Disintegration   Mass                           Media Foreign                           Relations 
Relations                               with Other African States
- Relations                               with Arab Countries  Relations                               with the United StatesOther                               Foreign Relations
Chapter                       5 - National Security
 (Thomas Ofcansky)                       
Internation                           Security Concerns
Irredentism                               and the Changing Balance of Power
- The                               Ogaden War: Performance and Implications of Defeat  Postwar                               Status of the Armed ForcesInternal                           Security Concerns
Government                               Security Policy
- Sources                               of Opposition   History                           and Development of the Armed Forces- The                               Warrior Tradition and Development of a Modern Army  The                               Armed Forces in National Life- The                                   Military and the Government  The                                   Military and the EconomyMission,                               Organization, and Strength
- Manpower,                               Training, and Conditions of Service   Foreign                           Military AssistanceState                           Security Services
Somali                               Police Force (SPF)
- People's                               Militia  National                               Security ServiceCriminal                           Justice 
Penal                               System
- Prison                               System   Human                           Rights - Appendix. Tables    BibliographyGlossary

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