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Understanding statebuilding traditional governance and the modern state in Somaliland

Much analysis of state building focusses on dissecting specific projects and attempting to identify what has gone 'wrong' in states such as Afghanistan and Iraq. What draws less attention is what has gone 'right' in non-interventionist statebuilding projects within 'unrecogn...

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Main Author: Richards, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2016
Subjects:
Nation-building > Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- )
Newly independent states > Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- )
Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- ) > Politics and government
Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- ) > Ethnic relations
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Norms, ideals and modern statebuilding
  • 3. Legitimacy and the 'built' state
  • 4. The clan, governance and the build-up to breakdown
  • 5. The emergence of the new state
  • 6. The institutionalisation of the traditional
  • 7. Somaliland at the crossroads?
  • 8. Conclusions.

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