Learning from Somalia
Subtitle: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention
Contributors: Walter Clarke (Editor); Jeffrey Herbst (Editor)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: April 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780813327945
Subjects: Aid & relief programmes; Peace studies; Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993; General; Sociology; Somalia; Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1; Peace; Africa - Central; History-Africa - Central; Social Science / General; 1991-; Humanitarian assistance; Politics and government
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.