Consider Somaliland: State-Building with Traditional Leaders and Institutions

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BRILL, Jan 20, 2012 - History - 289 pages
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.
 

Contents

Places That Do Not Exist
1
I Challenging Received Notions of Statehood State Failure and StateBuilding
13
II The Failing State What Has Clan Got to Do With It?
33
III The Emergence of the Somali National Movement as a ClanSupported Opposition Force
59
IV Clan Elders and the Forging of a Hybrid State
87
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Marleen C.M. Renders, Ph.D. (2006) in Political Science, Ghent University, is a research associate at the Human Rights Centre of the same University. She was Fellow at the Somaliland Academy for Peace and Development in Hargeysa and has published several articles on state formation in Somaliland. She currently lives and works in Nairobi.

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