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Butler, Michael. "Revisiting Somalia: The Strategic Primacy of State-building in post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, Mar 22, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p99221_index.html>

Butler, M. J. , 2006-03-22 "Revisiting Somalia: The Strategic Primacy of State-building in post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p99221_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Popular and academic observers have characterized the U.S.-led military intervention in Somalia as precedent-setting, yet there is little consensus on the precedent. This paper attempts to clarify the matter by revisiting the strategies and tactics employed during U.S. operations in Somalia through the lens of social movement theory. In exploring the watershed case of Somalia, we offer insight into the ways in which social movement theorizing in general, and specific depictions of state capacity and response evident within that tradition, can be used to illuminate the dynamics of international crises and attempts at their management. We contend that a critical factor contributing to the degeneration of the U.S. mission in Somalia were the attempts by American civil and military authorities to employ methods of social control typically associated with the response of the state to social upheaval within a domestic setting to a complex and unfamiliar external conflict. The results of our analysis suggest that the main legacy of Somalia for U.S. foreign policy is tactical, rather than strategic or ideological. We conclude that the failed application of traditional methods of state response to social disorder by an external agent acting as a surrogate for the state in Somalia has direct implications for current efforts by the U.S. toward that end in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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