Somali State Failure: Players, Incentives and Institutions
Journal: Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja
Year: 2010

In Somalia the central government collapsed in 1991 and since then state failure became a widespread phenomenon and one of the greatest political and humanitarian problems facing the world in this century. Thus, the main objective of this research is to answer the following question: What went wrong?&#13;\nMost of the existing literature on the political economy of conflict starts from the assumption that state in Africa is predatory by nature. Unlike these studies, the present research, althoug