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]