Counterinsurgent Warfare and the Decentering of Sovereignty in Somalia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23740474
AutoresLouise Wiuff Moe (0000-0002-3088-7082, Danish Institute for International Studies, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Páginas119-140
Fecha de publicación2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaReconfiguring Intervention (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-58877-7_6
OpenAlexW2587379685
ISBN9781137588777
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas11

Focusing on the southern lower Juba region of Somalia, the chapter analyses the order-making effects of counter-insurgent warfare ‘turning local’, and the ensuing reconfigurations of political power and sovereignty. In this textbook example of ‘state fragility’, counter-insurgency approaches have, the chapter argues, started to adapt by ‘decentering sovereignty’, by enlisting and producing local ‘non-state’ actors and decentered ‘counter-insurgent polities’ with new coercive means. This is articulated through a legitimation discourse of ‘bottom-up government’, and offers opportunities for local and regional actors seeking influence through new international and transnational counter-insurgency alliances. The chapter shows that the resulting order-making effects, far from reflecting more locally inclusive forms of security, are configured around the reproduction of relations of force and contribute to a further militarization of the social.

Insurgency · Legitimation · Militarization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East