Beyond 'the Mogadishu Line
Some Australian Lessons for Managing Intra-State Conflicts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12258002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rogert G Patman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-75 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Wars and Insurgencies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-2318 • E-ISSN: 1743-9558 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/714005380 |
| OpenAlex | W2073340927 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The controversial humanitarian intervention in Somalia was a foretaste of a continuing international failure to come to terms with the post-Cold War security environment. For much of the 1990s, the wrong lessons, drawn almost entirely from the unsuccessful US experience in Mogadishu, shackled international thinking about international conflicts like Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Bosnia. Yet if the international communities going to develop a more effective response to the new pattern of intra-state violence, it should learn from the successes as well as the failures of humanitarian intervention in Somalia. In Baidoa, the Australians demonstrated it is possible to develop what might be termed a peace-enhancement strategy in a collapsed state situation. By striking a balance between political reconstruction and a measure willingness to use force to obtain compliance with UN demands the Australians indicated that the dire prophesies of Robert Kaplan's 'The Coming Anarchy' can be averted
Development economics · Economics · Humanitarian intervention · International community · International relations · Intervention (counseling · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sierra leone · Sociology · State (computer science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2008 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |