Consider Somaliland
Subtitle: state-building with traditional leaders and institutions
By: by Marleen Renders
Series: African social studies series -- v. 26; African social studies series -- v. 26.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004218482
Subjects: Politics and government; Nation-building; Newly independent states
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Places that do not exist; title: Challenging received notions of statehood, state failure and state-building; title: The failing state: What has clan got to do with it?; title: The emergence of the Somali national movement as a clan-supported opposition force; title: Clan elders and the forging of a hybrid state; title: 'At the centre of peace and war': pragmatic state building under the Egal government, 1993-1997; title: Looking like a proper state; title: Claiming the eastern borderlands; title: Egal's political and institutional tailpiece; title: Somaliland as a model for building proper states?.