Lowest down on the Failed State Index for five years running, Somalia has been described as 'destroyed', 'stateless' and 'ravaged'. Yet is also a place of promise… In this concise and compelling book, three internationally recognised experts on Africa examine the Somalian crisis. Comparing Somalia to neighbouring Somaliland, from the historical background up to the present, and looking into the effect of international intervention, this book provides an astute, sometimes surprising analysis pointing to the power of local ownership. Authoritative and thought-provoking, with many a lesson for stabilising failed states, Somalia – Fixing Africa's Most Failed State is both timely and useful.
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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
