Somalia: The Limits of the AMISOM Model
Source: The summer 2018 edition of The Washington Quarterly
The summer 2018 edition of The Washington Quarterly published an article titled “Subduing al-Shabaab: The Somalia Model of Counterterrorism and Its Limits” by Paul D. Williams, George Washington University. Somalia: The Limits of the AMISOM Model
The author argues that while AMISOM delivered some notable achievements, the model could not and should not be replicated elsewhere. It generated several problems that permitted AMISOM to degrade and displace al-Shabaab forces but not to defeat them, and unable to turn its military success into sustainable political gains.