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Large Liberal Interventions Should End: Clues from Failure in Somalia

Dr Colin Robinson
15 May 2026clockLong Read
UN patrol on the streets around Kismayo, Somalia, 1994. Courtesy of theodore liasi/Alamy

UN patrol on the streets around Kismayo, Somalia, 1994. Courtesy of theodore liasi/Alamy

Liberal intervention failed in Somalia. This Whitehall Paper analyses that failure and offers pointers so that the same mistakes are not made again here and elsewhere.

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