Jihad in the Arabian Sea

by Camille Pecastaing

Overview

Camille Pecastaing looks at the twenty-first-century challenges facing the region around the Bab el Mandeb-the tiny strait that separates the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean-from civil war, piracy, radical Islamism, terrorism and the real risk of environmental and economic failure on both sides of the strait. The author takes us with him into Somalia and Yemen, Eritrea and Djibouti, with excursions into Ethiopia and the Sudan, as he reveals how the economic and environmental crisis currently in gestation could lead to more social dislocation and violence in this strategically important region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817913748
Publisher:	Hoover Institution Press
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Series:	HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION Series
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Camille Pecastaing is an assistant professor of Middle East studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His areas of expertise include historical sociology, evolutionary social psychology, and comparative politics.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Gates of Tears

Chapter 2: In the Land of the Mad Mullāh: Somalia

Chapter 3: In the Land of the Imam: Yemen

Chapter 4: In the Land of the Mahdi: Sudan

Chapter 5: War at Sea

Chapter 6: The Rise of the Shabab

Chapter 7: Al Qaeda Redux 

Chapter 8: The Sad Lands