Learning from Somalia
Subtitle: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention
Contributors: Walter Clarke (Editor); Jeffrey Herbst (Editor)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: April 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780813327938
Subjects: Aid & relief programmes; Peace studies; Peacekeeping/Occupation Forces; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Somalia; Africa - Central; General; Humanitarian assistance; Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993; Peace
First sentence: Conventional foreign policy wisdom tells us that the armed multinational humanitarian intervention in Somalia, which began in December 1992, was a humanitarian success in the short term but became a political and military failure after the operations were turned over to the United Nations in May 1993.