Why al-Shabaab attacks Kenya: questioning the narrative paradigm

This article questions the current narrative paradigm and argues that al-Shabaab attacks Kenya for strategic and highly rational reasons, beyond sharing a border and having bases in southern Somalia closer to major population centres than Ethiopia or Uganda. Al-Shabaab targets Kenya more than other...

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Autores principales: Cannon, Brandon J. (Autor) ; Ruto Pkalya, Dominic (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2019
En: Terrorism and political violence
Año: 2019, Volumen: 31, Número: 4, Páginas: 836-852
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Palabras clave:
al-Shabaab
armed non-state actors
Counterterrorism
East Africa
Horn of Africa
Kenya
Somalia
Strategy
Tactics
Terrorism