Jeff Shaw is the author of “The Ethiopian-Adal War, 1529-1543” (Helion, 2021), the first book published in any language to cover the fourteen-year conflict, which nearly resulted in the conquest of Christian Ethiopia in the sixteenth century. He wrote “Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition” (Wipf & Stock, 2014). His other works include the 3-volume “War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict,” which was selected by the American Library Association as a Best Reference Source in 2018. Professor Shaw's book chapters include The Ogaden War in “Peripheries of the Cold War, Comparative Studies from a Global Perspective Vol. 3.”