Jihad in the Arabian Sea / Camille Pecastaing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pecastaing, Camille.

Series:

Hoover Institution Press publication ; 612.

Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 612

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and state--Mandab, Strait of.

Islam and state.

Islam and state--Red Sea.

Mandab, Strait of--History.

Mandab, Strait of.

Mandab, Strait of--Politics and government.

Red Sea--History.

Red Sea.

Red Sea--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The gates of tears

In the land of the mad mullah: Somalia

In the land of the imam: Yemen

In the land of the mahdi: Sudan

War at sea

The rise of the shabab

Al Qaeda redux

The sad lands.

Notes:

"Herbert and Jane Dwight working group on Islamism and the international order."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780817913762

0817913769

OCLC:

808344419