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Consider Somaliland : state-building with traditional leaders and institutions

Can 'traditional' leaders and institutions help to build more legitimate, accountable and effective governments in polities or 'states' under (re)construction? This book investigates the fascinating case of "Somaliland", the 20-year old non-recognized state which emerged from Somalia's conflict and state collapse
eBook, English, 2012
BRILL, Leiden, 2012
1 online resource (311 pages)
9789004222540, 9789004218482, 9786613470737, 9004222545, 9004218483, 6613470732
775301944
Print version:
Introduction: Places that do not exist
Challenging received notions of statehood, state failure and state-building
The failing state: What has clan got to do with it?
The emergence of the Somali national movement as a clan-supported opposition force
Clan elders and the forging of a hybrid state
'At the centre of peace and war': pragmatic state building under the Egal government, 1993-1997
Looking like a proper state
Claiming the eastern borderlands
Egal's political and institutional tailpiece
Somaliland as a model for building proper states?
English