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The Red Sea Crisis Goes Beyond the Houthis

Johnnie Carson, Alex Rondos, Susan Stigant, Michael Woldemariam
Snapshot

America Needs a New Strategy in Somalia

Sarah Harrison
Snapshot

Sharia, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Somalia’s Dangerous Authoritarian Turn

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Snapshot

Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family’s Quest for a Country to Call Home

Simon Turner
Capsule Review

Foreign Affairs LIVE With Ty McCormick

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Somalia Must Learn to Stand Alone

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Snapshot

After the Mogadishu Attacks

Stig Jarle Hansen, Christopher Anzalone
Snapshot

Puntland’s Problems

Vanda Felbab-Brown
Snapshot

The Horn of Africa’s Qat-22

James F. Jeffrey
Essay

Securing Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown
Snapshot

The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Al Shabab’s Resurgence

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

Ramadan in Djibouti

James F. Jeffrey
Essay

Somaliland’s Search for Place

James F. Jeffrey
Essay

Somalia’s Governance Problem

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Al Shabab’s Lessons for ISIS

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

The Softer Side of Jihad

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

Terrorist Tug-of-War

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
Snapshot

Sermonizing With Al Shabab

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

Saving Somalia (Again)

Vanda Felbab-Brown
Snapshot

Terrorist Turf Wars

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

How to End Piracy

Conor Seyle
Snapshot

False Security in Kenya

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

Black Market

Tom Keatinge
Snapshot

Al Shabab’s Last Stand?

Paul Hidalgo
Snapshot

Kenya Divided

Paul Hidalgo
Snapshot

Quenching Kenya

Brahma Chellaney
Snapshot

How Zawahiri Lost al Qaeda

William McCants
Snapshot

Behind Al Shabab’s Latest Attack

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
Postscript

Why Drones Work

Daniel Byman
Essay

Why Drones Fail

Audrey Kurth Cronin
Essay

Jihad Comes to Kenya

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
Snapshot

Negotiating an End to Somalia's War with al Shabaab

Afyare Abdi Elmi , Abdi Aynte
Snapshot

The Splintering of Al Shabaab

Bronwyn Bruton, J. Peter Pham
Snapshot

Why Kenya Invaded Somalia

Daniel Branch
Snapshot

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on the Famine in Somalia

Mwai Kibaki
Letter From

How to End the Stalemate in Somalia

Bronwyn Bruton, J. Peter Pham
Snapshot

Somalia's Starvation

Ken Menkhaus
Snapshot

Foreign Affairs LIVE: The Future of State Building

Bronwyn Bruton, James Dobbins, Clare Lockhart, Gideon Rose

In the Quicksands of Somalia

Bronwyn Bruton
Essay

Becoming Somaliland; Understanding Somalia and Somaliland

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

The Precedents for Withdrawal

Bennett Ramberg
Comment

Policing Africa: Internal Security and the Limits of Liberalization

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Picking Up U.N. Peacekeeping's Pieces: Knowing When to Say When

John Hillen
Review Essay

The Exit Strategy Delusion

Gideon Rose
Essay

The New Interventionism: United Nations Experience in Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia, and Somalia

Francis Fukuyama
Capsule Review

Somalia: State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention, and Strategies for Political Reconstruction

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Somalia and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention

Walter Clarke, Jeffrey Herbst
Essay

The Somali Challenge: From Catastrophe to Renewal?; The Cost of Dictatorship: The Somali Experience

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Somalia and Operation Restore Hope: Reflections on Peacemaking and Peacekeeping; Somalia Operations: Lessons Learned

Eliot A. Cohen
Capsule Review

The Lessons of Somalia

Chester A. Crocker
Comment

Somalia: The Missed Opportunities

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

A New Colonialism?

William Pfaff
Comment

The Recovery of Internationalism: Stemming the Isolationist Impulse

David C. Hendrickson
Essay

Wrong Turn in Somalia

John R. Bolton
Essay

The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations in the Sudan

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Debacle in Somalia

Jeffrey Clark
Essay

Change and Conflict in the Horn of Africa

Leo Silberman
Essay

Power Politics and the Peace Machinery

Hamilton Fish Armstrong
Essay
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