Local State‐Building in Afghanistan and Somaliland

The Practice and Theory of US Statebuilding

The United States has employed three models of statebuilding over the last century, each animated by a different political theory. Statebuilding 1.0, developed and used from the late 1890s through the end of the Cold War, emphasized building loyal and politically stable subordinate states. Privileging American geopolitical and economic interests over those of local populations, the model was pr...

3 - Somaliland National Policy

AIDs Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ART Antiretroviral Treatment FGDs Focus Group Discussions FGM Female Genital Mutilation GOS The Government of Somaliland HIV Human Immunodefiiciency Virus ILO International Labour Organisation IMSC HIV/AIDS Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee KIIs Key Informant Interviews MOHL Ministry of Health and Labour MTCT Mother to Child Transmission NTC HIV/AIDS ...

Communities Perception of Electronic Banking in Somaliland

The ambiguity of khat in Somaliland.

AIM OF THE STUDY This article presents an analysis of the economic, political and socio-cultural significance of khat in Somaliland, highlighting both its positive and negative effects. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirteen months of anthropological fieldwork in Somaliland, two months of anthropological fieldwork among Somalis in London, four months experience from the Somalia Joint Needs Assessment...

Networks of Profit in Georgia’s Autonomous Regions: Challenges to Statebuilding

By the mid-1990s, Georgia had lost de facto jurisdiction in most of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Over time, informal trade originating during wartime burgeoned into networks of profit, enlisting a broad spectrum of actors. Scholars have suggested that networks of profit should either eventually harden into state institutions or weaken the state as a result of the economics of deliberate violence...