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Foreign Intervention and Radicalization in Somalia: How and When Does Conflict Evolve into Violence (2001 -2009) analyzes political violence within a broader political context in which the mobilization of social movements takes place. The central focus of this book is to explain the social mechanisms through which the radicalization processes unfolded on the part of al-Shabaab between 2001 and 2009 in Somalia. H. Ibrahim Alegöz traces the intricate interactions of social mechanisms that gave rise to the steady escalation of more militant forms of conflict from a relational, dynamic, and process-oriented perspective.
The book offers an alternative approach to the existing models linking violence to ideological preferences, cultural templates, or ethnic and state-centric pathologies. Alegöz argues that historical and contentious political interactions play a crucial role in explaining violence. The author demonstrates how the interests of local, regional, and international actors have overlapped within the Global War on Terror framework. The book finds that radicalization dynamics have undergone two consecutive episodes of contentious social interactions that, at the onset, were related to the formation of the Mogadishu-based warlord alliance and escalated following the Ethiopian military intervention in Somalia. It prompted a power vacuum which allowed al-Shabaab to expand its tactical repertoire of action and modify its target preferences into a relatively institutionalized, aggressive, and clandestine character.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter I. Context and Theory
Literature and Research Design
Political Violence in Context: Relational Arenas of Interaction
Contentious Politics and the Relational Radicalization Framework
Chapter II. Somalia: A Decade of Political and Social Transformation
Civil War, Peace Operations, and Diplomatic Initiatives
Violent Entrepreneurs, Business Elites, and the Islamic Courts
Internalization of the Terrorism Paradigm in Somalia
Chapter III. Radicalization Trajectories of Al-Shabaab in Context
Navigating Local Threats: The Unification of Islamic Courts
The Global War on Terror and Local Alliance Formation
Ethiopian Military Intervention and the Rise of al-Shabaab
The Dynamics of Fragmentation in the Union of Islamic Courts
Chapter IV. Radicalization Mechanisms into Violence
Comparison through Mechanisms
Policy Implications
Conclusion
