Tafelberg Short: Somalia - Fixing Africa's Most Failed State

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Greg Mills. Tafelberg Short: Somalia - Fixing Africa's Most Failed State

Somalia – Fixing Africa’s Most Failed State

Somalia: the archetypal failed state

A brief history of conflict and external intervention

Causes of conflict

Failed, not entirely broken

Somaliland’s bottom-up lesson

Conclusion: changing the incentives

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Greg Mills, J. Peter Pham and David Kilcullen

Today, the picture is very different.2

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With the above in mind, this ebook uses Somalia, the most extreme of examples, to examine three issues associated with whether external intervention can be successful at ‘putting back together’ or ‘stabilising’ failed states: First, why did Somalia collapse? Second, does Somaliland’s experience to the north offer any pointers to would-be state-builders in the south and further afield? And third, what can be learnt from the history of external intervention?

1 Conrad Norton and Uys Krige, Vanguard of Victory: A Short Review of South African Victories in East Africa – 1940-1941. Pretoria: Government Printer, 1941, p. 35

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