Table of Contents
Preface vii
1 A Nation in Search of a State: The Somali Mystique of Unity 1
2 United We Fall: Somalia From Independence to Civil War 17
3 Founding and Fostering the Somali National Movement (SNM) 37
4 SNM: The Slow Growth of an Odd Guerrilla Force in the Hard-Edged Cold War Landscape 57
5 Cold War Recess: The Mogadishu-SNM Stand-Off in an indifferent World, 1984-1988 73
6 And Suddenly All Hell Broke Loose, 1988 93
7 The Local War in the North Goes Global, 1989-1991 113
8 North and South Break up and Fight Among Themselves 133
9 Independence, Humanitarian Invasion and Sailing into the Unknown 149
10 Odd Man Out: Somaliland's Fragile Peace on the Edge of Somalia's War Without End 175
11 From Survival to Globalisation: What is the Need for a Nation-State in Somaliland? 195
Notes 219
Bibliography 255
Index 257