Somalia : a country study

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Bibliographic Details
OCLC:622546604
Corporate Author: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division
Other Authors: Metz, Helen Chapin, 1928-
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : The Division : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1993.
Edition:4th ed.
Series:Area handbook series.
DA pam ; 550-86.
Subjects:
Somalia.
Somalie.
Online Resource:LLMC Digital
Related Items:Print version: Somalia.
Format:

Government Document Monograph Online Resource

Table of Contents:
  • The Somalis: their origins, migrations, and settlement. Coastal towns ; Emergence of Adal ; Mogadishu and its Banaadir Hinterlands ; The Somali Peninsula on the eve of imperial partition ; The Majeerteen Sultanates
  • Imperial partition. Mahammad Abdille Hasan's dervish resistance to colonial occupation ; Consolidation of colonial rule ; Somalia during World War II ; British military administration ; Trusteeship and protectorate: the road to independence
  • From independence to revolution. Problems of national integration ; Pan-Somalism ; Foreign relations, 1960-69 ; The Husseen government ; Coup d'etat
  • The revolutionary regime. Supreme revolutionary council ; Challenges to the regime ; Siad Barre and scientific socialism ; The language and literacy issue ; Creation of the Somali revolutionary socialist party
  • Somalia's difficult decade, 1980-90. Entrenching Siad Barre's personal rule ; Siad Barre's repressive measures ; Persecution of the Majeerteen ; Oppression of the Isaaq ; Harrying of the Hawiye
  • Physical setting. Climate ; Terrain, vegetation, and drainage
  • Population and settlement patterns
  • The segmentary social order. Samaal ; Digil and Rahanwayn ; Riverine and coastal people and non-Somali origin ; Specialized occupational groups ; Social change
  • Lineage segmentation and the Somali civil war
  • Religious life. The tenets of Islam ; Religious roles in Somali Islam ; Religious orders and the cult of the saints ; Folk Islam and indigenous ritual ; Islam in the colonial era and after ; Rising Islamism
  • Language and education
  • Health
  • Refugees
  • Breakdown of the infrastructure
  • Pastoralism and commerce in historical perspective
  • The colonial economy
  • Economic development, 1960-69
  • Scientific socialism, 1970-75
  • The socialist revolution after 1975
  • From scientific socialism to "IMF-ism," 1981-90
  • Natural resources and economic infrastructure. Land ; Energy ; transportation ; Communications
  • The "real" Somali economy in the 1980s. Export of labor ; Export of livestock ; Rural subsistence sector ; Urban subsistence and government employment ; Undeveloped sectors ; Foreign trade
  • Government structure. Constitution ; Legislature ; Local government ; Legal system ; Courts
  • Political dynamics. Opposition movements ; Politics of reconciliation ; Politics of succession ; Political disintegration
  • Mass media
  • Foreign relations. Relations with neighboring African states ; Relations with Arab countries ; Relations with the United States ; Other foreign relations
  • International security concerns. Irredentism and the changing balance of power ; The Ogaden War: performance and implications of defeat ; Postwar status of the armed forces
  • Internal security concerns. Government security policy ; Sources of opposition
  • History and development of the armed forces. The warrior tradition and development of the modern army ; The armed forces in national life ; Mission, organization, and strength ; Manpower, training, and conditions of service
  • Foreign military assistance ; State security services. Somali police force ; People's militia ; National security service
  • Criminal justice. Penal system ; Prison system
  • Human rights.

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