Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Cold War battleground
  • The coming of the Cold War
  • The United Nations and the Horn of Africa
  • Forging the "special relationship"
  • Self-determination and the New Frontier
  • In the shadow of Vietnam
  • Vital and peripheral interests
  • Revolution in Ethiopia
  • The era of the Vietnam syndrome
  • The Ogaden War and the demise of de?tente
  • Realignment and Reagan
  • The end of the Cold War
  • Somalia: from colonialism to terrorism.