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Africa: May 2002

Somalia: In the Crosshairs of the War on Terrorism

By: Ken Menkhaus

Description: "One lesson learned since September 11 is that the expanded war on terrorism has created a lens that tends to distort our vision of the complex political dynamics of countries like Somalia. Local political realities are not always assessed in their own right, but instead are interpreted through, and reduced to, the logic of the war on terrorism."

Volume: 101
Issue: 655
Page: 210

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