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Selected bibliography on Somalia for the comprehensive exam

Abdullahi, Abdurahman. Tribalism, Nationalism and Islam: Crisis of the Political Loyalties in
Somalia. MA thesis submitted to the Islamic Institute, McGill University, 1992.

Besteman, Catherine. Unravelling Somalia: Race, Violence, and the Legacy of Slavery. University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Brons, Maria. Society, Security, Sovereignty and the State in Somali: from Statelessness to
Statelessness? Nederland: International Books, 2001.

Cassanelli, Lee. The Shaping of Somali Society. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press,
1982.

Contini, Paolo. The Somali Republic: an Experiment in Legal Integration. London: Frank Cass &
Company, 1969.

Hersi, Ali Abdirahman. The Arab factor in Somali History: The origins and Development of the
Arab Enterprise and the Cultural Influence in the Somali Peninsula. PHD dissertation, University
of California, 1977.

Hersi, Mohammed. Root-causes of the Political Crisis of Somalia: Collapse of the State and
UN/US Intervention. MA thesis, University of Guelph, 1996.

Hess, Robert. Italian colonialism in Somalia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Jackson, Donna. Jimmy Carter and the Horn of Africa: Cold War Policy in Ethiopia and
Somalia. McFarland& Co, 2007.

Jumale, Ahmed. The Invention of Somalia. Lawrenceville: The Red Sea Press, 1995.

Laitin, David D., and Said Samatar. Somalia: Nation in Search of a State. Boulder: Westview
Press, 1987.

Le Sage, Andre. Somalia and the war on terrorism: Political Islamic movements and US counter
terrorism efforts. DPhil Thesis, Cambridge University/Jesus College, 2005.

Lewis, I.M. Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea
Pres, 1994.

Lewis, I. M. Pastoral Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Lewis, I. M. Saints and Somalis:  popular Islam in a clan-based society. Lawrenceville, N.J.: Red
Sea Press, 1998.
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Lewis, I.M. A Modern History of Somalia: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa. London:
Longmans, 1980.

Logan, Carolyn. Rebuilding Somali Political System: Growing new Roots in Indigenous Realities,
or Merely Reconstructing the Past? PhD Dissertation, Tufs University, 2002.

Luling, Virginia. Somali Sultanate: The Geledi City-State over 150 Years. London: Haan
Publications, 2002.

Menkhaus, ken. Somalia: State Collapse and the Threat of Terrorism. Oxford: New York: Oxford
University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies; London; New
York: Rutledge, 2004.

Mohamoud, Abdullah. State collapse and post-conflict development in Africa:  the case of Somalia
(1960-2001). West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2006.

Mohamed, Hamdi. Multiple Challenges, Multiple Struggles: A History of Somali women’s

Activism in Canada. PhD Dissertation, University of Ottawa, 2003.

Mohamed Osman. The Road to Zero: Somalia’s self-destruction. Haan Associates, 1992.

Okbazghi Yohannes. The United State and the Horn of Africa: An analytical Study of
Pattern and Process. Westview Press, 1997.

Osman, Abdullahi and Souare, Issaka (ed.). Somalia at the crossroads: Challenges and
Perspectives on Reconstituting a Failed State. London: Adonis and Abby Publishers Ltd, 2007.

Poalo Tripodi. The Colonial Legacy in Somalia: Rome and Mogadishu: from Colonial
Administration to Operation Restore Hope. London : Macmillan Press, 1999.

Reese, Scott Steven. Patricians of the Banadir: Islamic Learning, Commerce and Somali Urban
Identity in the 19th century. PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.

Samatar, Ahmed. Socialist Somalia: Rhetoric and Reality. London: Zed Press, 1988.

Samatar, Ahmed ed. The Somali Challenge: From Catastrophe to Renewal. Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 1994.

Simons, Anna. Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.

Schwoebel, Mary Hope. Nation Building in the Lands of Somalis. PhD Dissertation, George
Mason University, 2007.

Tauval, Saadia. Somali Nationalism, Cambridge University Press, 1963.

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Toga, Dawit. Super power Rivalry and Regional Conflict in the Horn of Africa: Shifting Alliances,
Strategic choices, and Domestic politics, PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2000.