Book Review: Fighting for Peace in Somalia: A History and Analysis of the African Union Mission (AMISOM), 2007-2017

Alexandria Reid, Book Review: Fighting for Peace in Somalia: A History and Analysis of the African Union Mission (AMISOM), 2007-2017, RUSI Journal, April 2019

Since 2007, the African Union’s Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) has epitomised the tactical highs and strategic lows of modern peacekeeping. Indeed, by mid- 2017, AMISOM had become the largest deployment of uniformed peacekeepers anywhere in the world, but seemingly had little to show for it. Paul D Williams’s latest book, Fighting for Peace in Somalia: A History and Analysis of the African Union Mission (AMISOM), 2007-2017, is an ambitious exploration of arguably the world’s most complex – and most deadly – peace operation to date.

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