Strategic Shortfall: The Somali Syndrome and the March to 9/11

Series Title: Praeger Security International

Contrary to conventional wisdom, this book argues, it was not the 9/11 attacks that transformed the international security environment. Instead, it was "Somali Syndrome," an aversion to intervening in failed states that began in the wake of the1993 U.S./UN action in Somalia. The botched raid precipitated America's strategic retreat from its post-Cold War experiment at partnership with the UN in nation-building and peace enforcement and engendered U.S. paralysis in the face of genocide in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. The ensuing international security vacuum emboldened al-Qaeda to emerge and attack America and inaugurated our present era of intrastate conflict, mass killings, forced relocations, and international terrorism.

As this even-handed treatment shows, the Somali crisis can be connected to seven key features of the emerging post-Cold War world security order. These include the fact that failed states are now the main source of world instability and that new wars are driven by racial, ethnic, and religious identity issues.

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The ethics of foreign policy

Edited by David B. MacDonald, Robert G. Patman and Betty Mason-Parker

The Ethics of Foreign Policy considers the ethical aspects of foreign policy change through five interrelated dimensions: conceptual, security, economic, normative and diplomatic. Defining ethics and what an ethical foreign policy should be is highly contested. The book includes many very different viewpoints to reflect the strong divergence of opinion on such issues as humanitarian intervention, free trade, the doctrine of preemption, political corruption and human rights. The thematic approach provides this volume with a clear organizational structure, giving readers a balanced overview of a number of important conceptual and practical issues central to the ethical analysis of states' conduct and foreign policy making.

Globalization and Conflict

Edited by Robert G. Patman

The conventional wisdom since the suicide attacks of 9/11 is that the world has been transformed, and, according to President Bush, "September 11changed the strategic thinking" of the US. Challenging both these assumptions, this volume highlights the gap between the new security environment and the notion of the state-centred national security favoured by Washington, and shows how the Cold War phenomenon known as the 'national security state', remains largely intact.

Sovereignty under siege? Globalization and New Zealand

Edited by Chris Rudd and Robert G. Patman

This book explores, analyzes and evaluates the interaction between globalization and New Zealand sovereignty. This book reveals the paradoxes of New Zealand's encounter with globalization; and provides useful reading for specialists of globalization and for general readers interested in the complex national experience of New Zealand.

Universal Human Rights?

Edited by Robert G. Patman

Written some fifty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this book shows that the struggle for a fuller realization of these rights is far from over. It maps out the current international human rights agenda by focusing on four interrelated themes. The first concerns the conceptual development of human rights; the second looks at human rights in the Asia-Pacific region; the third considers human rights in a post-Cold War environment; and the fourth assesses the protection and monitoring of human rights.

Security in a Post-Cold War World

Edited by Robert G. Patman

For much of the post-war era, the substance and scope of international security was defined by the parameters of the Cold War. But the end of the Cold War has created a new global context. This book seeks to map out the nature of post-Cold War security by exploring the patterns of international conflict, weighing non-state challenges to security, examining interstate cooperation in the security field and evaluating the security dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region.



New Zealand and Britain: A Special Relationship in Transition

Edited by Robert G. Patman

A shared language, an overlapping culture, a similar commitment to representative democracy and many family ties have traditionally combined to produce feelings of mutual affinity between New Zealand and Britain. However, the relationship has been transformed in the years since New Zealand formally assumed full sovereignty over its own affairs in 1947. Huge changes in both countries and the advent of a new global environment after the Cold War has eroded the certainties of the past. This book looks at the interaction of cultural, economic, political and security developments which shape the contemporary relationships between the two countries, and draws conclusions from these trends for the future.

The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa

by Robert G. Patman

The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa is the first major attempt to address the paradoxes of Soviet behavior in the area. It provides a historical background to the recent conflicts and shows how the Soviet Union and its East European partners dramatically switched from being close allies of Somalia to allies of Ethiopia--intervening in the Ethiopian-Somali war of 1977-8 to ensure the military defeat of their former ally. It also assesses the Soviet experience in the region in the decade since 1979.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 411 pages [ISBN 0-521-36022-6]