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Al-Shabaab is an exemplary case study outside of Latin America for demonstrating the explanatory power of the theory of incubation. It is timely given US involvement there has been rapidly increasing since 2017. It is a radical Islamist inspired group, which bodes well for the claim that no one ideology constitutes an organizational genius. It is recent, which lends good evidence the theory of incubation not only travels across region but time as well. This chapter explores the incubation period of the al-Shabaab insurgency and in so doing demonstrates, contrary to popular accounts that the organization underwent a lengthy incubation period that made it one of the most formidable and durable insurgencies in the region.
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Blaxland, J.J. (2020). The Youth. In: Insurgency Prewar Preparation and Intrastate Conflict . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38185-1_6
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