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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779089203321

Autore

Renders Marleen

Titolo

Consider Somaliland [[electronic resource] ] : state-building with traditional leaders and institutions / / by Marleen Renders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012

ISBN

1-283-47073-X

9786613470737

90-04-22254-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

African social studies series, , 1568-1263 ; ; v. 26

Classificazione

MI 56010

Disciplina

967.73

Soggetti

Nation-building - Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- )

Newly independent states - Africa, Northeast

Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- ) Politics and government

Somalia Politics and government 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?.

Sommario/riassunto

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 case of “Somaliland”, the 20-year old non-recognized state which emerged from Somalia’s conflict and state collapse. A careful analysis of Somaliland’s political history, it outlines the complex and evolving institutional and power dynamics involving clan elders, militia leaders, guerrilla movements, as well as politicians and civil servants in its emerging state structures. While showing the great potential of endogenous processes, it clearly



demonstrates the complexity and the politics of those processes and the necessity to think beyond one-size-fits-all state-building formulas.