{"product_id":"foreign-intervention-and-radicalization-in-halil-ibrahim-alegziz-9781666964851","title":"Foreign Intervention and Radicalization in Somalia (2001-2009): How and When Does Conflict Evolve Into Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeign Intervention and Radicalization in Somalia: How and When Does Conflict Evolve into Violence (2001 -2009)\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes political violence within a broader political context in which the mobilization of social movements takes place. The central focus of this book is to explain the social mechanisms through which the radicalization processes unfolded on the part of al-Shabaab between 2001 and 2009 in Somalia. H. Ibrahim Alegöz traces the intricate interactions of social mechanisms that gave rise to the steady escalation of more militant forms of conflict from a relational, dynamic, and process-oriented perspective.\u003cbr\u003eThe book offers an alternative approach to the existing models linking violence to ideological preferences, cultural templates, or ethnic and state-centric pathologies. Alegöz argues that historical and contentious political interactions play a crucial role in explaining violence. The author demonstrates how the interests of local, regional, and international actors have overlapped within the Global War on Terror framework. The book finds that radicalization dynamics have undergone two consecutive episodes of contentious social interactions that, at the onset, were related to the formation of the Mogadishu-based warlord alliance and escalated following the Ethiopian military intervention in Somalia. It prompted a power vacuum which allowed al-Shabaab to expand its tactical repertoire of action and modify its target preferences into a relatively institutionalized, aggressive, and clandestine character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Halil Ibrahim Alegöz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1666964859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781666964851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Halil Ibrahim Alegöz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47579836121343,"sku":"9781666964851","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23487548-e97c-45d8-8f2d-468a00b8fa38.jpg?v=1763876986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/foreign-intervention-and-radicalization-in-halil-ibrahim-alegziz-9781666964851","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}