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Consider Somaliland : state-building with traditional leaders and institutions /

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 emerge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Renders, Marleen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2012.
Colección:African social studies series ; v. 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Places that do not exist
  • Challenging received notions of statehood, state failure and state-building
  • The failing state: What has clan got to do with it?
  • The emergence of the Somali national movement as a clan-supported opposition force
  • Clan elders and the forging of a hybrid state
  • 'At the centre of peace and war': pragmatic state building under the Egal government, 1993-1997
  • Looking like a proper state
  • Claiming the eastern borderlands
  • Egal's political and institutional tailpiece
  • Somaliland as a model for building proper states?