Consider Somaliland : State-Building with Traditional Leaders and Institutions.

By: Renders, MarleenMaterial type: TextTextSeries: African Social Studies SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (311 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004222540Subject(s): Nation-building -- Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- ) | Newly independent states -- Africa, Northeast | Somalia -- Politics and government -- 1991- | Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- ) -- Politics and governmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Consider Somaliland : State-Building with Traditional Leaders and InstitutionsDDC classification: 967.73 LOC classification: JZ5584.S58R46 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Consider Somaliland -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Somali Orthography and Transliteration -- Introduction: Places That Do Not Exist -- A. State-Making in Somaliland -- B. Data Collection -- C. Plan of the Book -- I Challenging Received Notions of Statehood, State Failure and State-Building -- A. Defining a State: Somaliland's Claim to Statehood -- B. Failing What? -- C. Persistent Anachronisms -- D. Anachronisms as Patches for State Failure -- E. Invented Traditions and the Making of African States: A Two Way-Process -- F. State-Making Reconsidered: Bringing Politics Back in -- G. Concluding Remarks: Concepts, Discourse and Politics -- II The Failing State. What Has Clan Got to Do With It? -- A. The Somaliland Protectorate and the Introduction of the Modern Nation State -- B. Colonial Administration and State Building -- C. Clanship Mediated Politics in Cold War Somalia -- D. Concluding Remarks: Failed State Building? -- III The Emergence of the Somali National Movement as a Clan-Supported Opposition Force -- A. Growing Oppositions in the Northwest -- B. Becoming Isaaq -- C. SNM Fighting in the Northwest -- D. Concluding Remarks -- IV Clan Elders and the Forging of a Hybrid State -- A. The Role of Clan Elders in the Undoing of the SNM -- B. SNM Heartland: Clan Elders' Negotiating Power over State Resources -- C. Peace, Governance and State Outside the Isaaq Heartland -- D. Conclusion -- V "At the Centre of Peace and War": Pragmatic State Building Under the Egal Government, 1993-1997 -- A. Somaliland and UNOSOM II -- B. The Airport War -- C. Regime Consolidation via War … and 'Traditional' Peace Making -- D. Concluding Remarks -- VI Looking Like a Proper State -- A. The Hargeysa 'Clan Conference' and the End of Clan-Based Representation.
B. Undoing Local Governance Arrangements While Outsourcing Security and Public Order -- C. Centralising Symbolic and Material Resources -- D. Concluding Remarks -- VII Claiming the Eastern Borderlands -- A. The Dhulbahante and Somaliland -- B. Competing State Claims -- C. Shifting Sands and Loose Ends -- D. Concluding Remarks -- VIII Egal's Political and Institutional Tailpiece -- A. The Referendum on the Draft Constitution and the Introduction of the Multi-party System -- B. The Opposition Sultaans -- C. Toward the First Election -- D. Conclusion -- IX Somaliland as a Model for Building Proper States? -- A. Transitioning into the Post-Egal Era -- B. The Elections: Clan Politics Through the Back Door -- C. Somaliland after the First Round of Elections under the Multi-party System -- D. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Consider Somaliland -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Somali Orthography and Transliteration -- Introduction: Places That Do Not Exist -- A. State-Making in Somaliland -- B. Data Collection -- C. Plan of the Book -- I Challenging Received Notions of Statehood, State Failure and State-Building -- A. Defining a State: Somaliland's Claim to Statehood -- B. Failing What? -- C. Persistent Anachronisms -- D. Anachronisms as Patches for State Failure -- E. Invented Traditions and the Making of African States: A Two Way-Process -- F. State-Making Reconsidered: Bringing Politics Back in -- G. Concluding Remarks: Concepts, Discourse and Politics -- II The Failing State. What Has Clan Got to Do With It? -- A. The Somaliland Protectorate and the Introduction of the Modern Nation State -- B. Colonial Administration and State Building -- C. Clanship Mediated Politics in Cold War Somalia -- D. Concluding Remarks: Failed State Building? -- III The Emergence of the Somali National Movement as a Clan-Supported Opposition Force -- A. Growing Oppositions in the Northwest -- B. Becoming Isaaq -- C. SNM Fighting in the Northwest -- D. Concluding Remarks -- IV Clan Elders and the Forging of a Hybrid State -- A. The Role of Clan Elders in the Undoing of the SNM -- B. SNM Heartland: Clan Elders' Negotiating Power over State Resources -- C. Peace, Governance and State Outside the Isaaq Heartland -- D. Conclusion -- V "At the Centre of Peace and War": Pragmatic State Building Under the Egal Government, 1993-1997 -- A. Somaliland and UNOSOM II -- B. The Airport War -- C. Regime Consolidation via War … and 'Traditional' Peace Making -- D. Concluding Remarks -- VI Looking Like a Proper State -- A. The Hargeysa 'Clan Conference' and the End of Clan-Based Representation.

B. Undoing Local Governance Arrangements While Outsourcing Security and Public Order -- C. Centralising Symbolic and Material Resources -- D. Concluding Remarks -- VII Claiming the Eastern Borderlands -- A. The Dhulbahante and Somaliland -- B. Competing State Claims -- C. Shifting Sands and Loose Ends -- D. Concluding Remarks -- VIII Egal's Political and Institutional Tailpiece -- A. The Referendum on the Draft Constitution and the Introduction of the Multi-party System -- B. The Opposition Sultaans -- C. Toward the First Election -- D. Conclusion -- IX Somaliland as a Model for Building Proper States? -- A. Transitioning into the Post-Egal Era -- B. The Elections: Clan Politics Through the Back Door -- C. Somaliland after the First Round of Elections under the Multi-party System -- D. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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