Ken Menkhaus
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 138485 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ken Menkhaus |
| PRENOMES | Ken |
| SOBRENOME | Menkhaus |
| ASSINATURA | MENKHAUS K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Davidson College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 372 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Non-state Actors and Failed States
Saints and Sinners in Somalia
A veteran journalist's account of the life of a colorful former mayor of Mogadishu offers insights into the complex realities of a city and a country often reduced to caricature
Elections in the Hardest Places
Somalia may be the most nonpermissive postconflict setting in the world in which to conduct elections. In 2016–17, to cope with an array of security, political, and logistical impediments to direct elections, a complex, indirect election system was improvised, involving 275 separate electoral colleges and over 14,000 delegates. The process was ad hoc and nonconstitutional, and plagued by vote buying, intimidation, and political interference. But …
Aid and institution-building in fragile states
Institution-building in Somalia has met with high levels of failure for two decades. But successes have occurred in other Somali-inhabited regions of the eastern Horn, and have been especially present at the local and municipal level. The most effective aid to institution-building in Somalia has been carefully calibrated support to hybrid local governance arrangements that enjoy a strong degree of local ownership and which deliver practical, urge…
State Failure, State-Building, and Prospects for a "Functional Failed State" in Somalia
Over two decades of external efforts at institution-building in Somalia have failed to revive a functional central government there. There are many reasons for this, not least of which are powerful local interests in perpetuating weak government institutions, facilitating corruption and other illicit activities. But some notable successes have occurred at the local level, both with formal and informal governance mechanisms. Municipalities have be…
Calm between the storms? Patterns of political violence in Somalia, 1950-1980
This article explores the uses of organized violence in Somali politics from the late colonial period up to 1980, an era that – on the surface, at least – appears relatively free of political violence compared to both previous and ensuing decades. After considering critical historical and contextual background, the analysis proposes a typology of political violence in Somalia. It then maps the trends in political violence from 1950 to 1980, looki…
Somalia at the Tipping Point
While transitional politics and the war against Al Shabab are dominating headlines, ... a combination of intense pressures is making subsistence livelihoods less and less viable and producing massive, irreversible migrations with enormous long-term implications for Somalia and Kenya
The Context of Contemporary Piracy
Piracy cannot be understood or addressed without knowledge of the political and socio-economic context of this criminal enterprise. Piracy economies are dynamic — the drivers, tactics and actors involved can and do change over time, necessitating counter-piracy strategies designed to adapt to these changes. Drawing on the Somalia case, we argue that anti-piracy responses to date have been only partially effective because they are not rooted in a …
Civil Society and Peacebuilding
Responding to the burgeoning interest in the role of civil society in peace processes, this groundbreaking collaborative effort identifies the constructive functions of civil society in support of peacebuilding both during and in the aftermath of armed conflict. The authors also highlight the factors that support those functions and the obstacles to their fulfillment. A comprehensive analytical framework is applied to 11 country cases, not only a…
Stabilisation and humanitarian access in a collapsed state
Somalia today is the site of three major threats: the world's worst humanitarian crisis; the longest-running instance of complete state collapse; and a robust jihadist movement with links to Al-Qa'ida. External state-building, counter-terrorism and humanitarian policies responding to these threats have worked at cross-purposes. State-building efforts that insist humanitarian relief be channelled through the nascent state in order to build its leg…
False Start in Africom
With the publication of ‘AFRICOM: Troubled Infancy, Promising Future’, James Forest and Rebecca Crispin make a significant contribution both to analysts and policymakers dealing with the particular
Somalia
This article documents the humanitarian, political and security dimensions of the current Somali crisis and assesses the external policies that are playing an increasingly central role in the conflict. It advances the thesis that in 2007 and 2008 external Western and UN actors treated Somalia as a post-conflict setting when in fact their own policies helped to inflame armed conflict and insecurity there. As a result there was no peace for peaceke…
Dangerous Waters
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKen MenkhausKen Menkhaus is Professor of Political Science at Davidson College, and a specialist on the Horn of Africa. His recent publications include Somalia: State Collapse and the Threat of Terrorism (2004) and ‘Governance without Government in Somalia’ in International Security (2007)
Building States to Build Peace
How can legitimate and sustainable states best be established in the aftermath of civil wars? And what role should international actors play in supporting the vital process? Addressing these questions, the authors of Building States to Peace explore the core challenges involved in institutionalizing postconflict states. The combination of thematic chapters and in-depth case studies covers the full range of the most vexing and diverse problems con…
The rise of a mediated state in northern Kenya
In an anarchic corner of northern Kenya in the mid-1990s, a collection of local non-state actors led by a women’s market group created an umbrella movement that came to establish an impressive level of peace and security across an entire region. The Kenyan government forged a formal relationship with this group in Wajir, essentially sub-contracting out important functions of local government to local civic leaders, and using its partnership with …
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of lon…
The rise of a mediated state in northern Kenya
In an anarchic corner of northern Kenya in the mid-199os, a collection oflocal non-state actors led by a women's market group created an umbrella movement that came to establish an impressive level of peace and security across an entire region. The Kenyan government forged a formal relationship with this group in Wajir, essentially sub-contracting out important functions oflocal government to local civic leaders, and using its partnership with th…
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of lon…
Arrangements sécuritaires locaux dans les régions somalies de la Corne de l'Afrique
Cet article explore les systèmes informels de sécurité et de gouvernance dans les communautés des hinterlands de l'Est de la Corne de l'Afrique, hors des zones effectivement administrées par « leur » gouvernement central. Les régions où l'État a failli ne restent pas sans gouvernance et sont au contraire le lieu de différents arrangements qui assurent des niveaux de sécurité variables aux populations. Il ne s'agit pas de communautés qui s'en reme…
Governance without Government in Somalia
Zones of state failure are assumed to be anarchic. In reality, communities facing the absence of an effective state authority forge systems of governance to provide modest levels of security and rule of law. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in Somalia, where an array of local and regional governance arrangements have emerged since the 1991 collapse of the state. The Somalia case can be used both to document the rise of governance with…
The crisis in Somalia
Somalia's catastrophic humanitarian crisis of 2007, in which up to 300,000 Mogadishu residents were displaced in fighting pitting Ethiopian and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces against a complex insurgency of clan and Islamist opposition, was the culmination of a series of political miscalculations and misjudgements on the part of Somali and external actors since 2004. They resulted in a cascading sequence of political crises which pl…
Somalia in 2005
Somalia
Vicious circles and the security development nexus in Somalia
The metaphor of the vicious circle is deeply embedded in analysis of protracted conflicts. Yet in at least some instances conflicts that appear to be self‐reinforcing in the short term are in the longer run producing conditions out of which new political orders can emerge. These protracted conflicts are thus dynamic, not static, crises and require post‐conflict assistance strategies that are informed by accurate trend analysis. The case of Somali…
Conflict prevention and human security
Governance without Government in Somalia
Zones of state failure are assumed to be anarchic. In reality, communities facing the absence of an effective state authority forge systems of governance to provide modest levels of security and rule of law. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in Somalia, where an array of local and regional governance arrangements have emerged since the 1991 collapse of the state. The Somalia case can be used both to document the rise of governance with…
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of lon…
The crisis in Somalia
Somalia's catastrophic humanitarian crisis of 2007, in which up to 300,000 Mogadishu residents were displaced in fighting pitting Ethiopian and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces against a complex insurgency of clan and Islamist opposition, was the culmination of a series of political miscalculations and misjudgements on the part of Somali and external actors since 2004. They resulted in a cascading sequence of political crises which pl…
State collapse in Somalia
Somalia's protracted crisis of complete state collapse is unprecedented and has defied easy explanation. Disaggregating the Somali debacle into three distinct crises – collapse of central government, protracted armed conflict, and lawlessness – helps to produce more nuanced analysis. Significant changes have occurred in the nature and intensity of conflict and lawlessness in Somalia since the early 1990s, with conflicts becoming more localized an…
Vicious circles and the security development nexus in Somalia
The metaphor of the vicious circle is deeply embedded in analysis of protracted conflicts. Yet in at least some instances conflicts that appear to be self‐reinforcing in the short term are in the longer run producing conditions out of which new political orders can emerge. These protracted conflicts are thus dynamic, not static, crises and require post‐conflict assistance strategies that are informed by accurate trend analysis. The case of Somali…
Political Islam in Somalia
State Failure, State-Building, and Prospects for a "Functional Failed State" in Somalia
Over two decades of external efforts at institution-building in Somalia have failed to revive a functional central government there. There are many reasons for this, not least of which are powerful local interests in perpetuating weak government institutions, facilitating corruption and other illicit activities. But some notable successes have occurred at the local level, both with formal and informal governance mechanisms. Municipalities have be…
Somalia
This article documents the humanitarian, political and security dimensions of the current Somali crisis and assesses the external policies that are playing an increasingly central role in the conflict. It advances the thesis that in 2007 and 2008 external Western and UN actors treated Somalia as a post-conflict setting when in fact their own policies helped to inflame armed conflict and insecurity there. As a result there was no peace for peaceke…
International peacebuilding and the dynamics of local and national reconciliation in Somalia
From a survey of the numerous reconciliation strategies in Somalia, the most successful were at local level, using traditional Somali socal mechanisms, except where new clans had conquered regions. The centrifugal social, political and economic forces in Somalia undermined the prospect for achieving national‐level peace accords
Somalia
Stabilisation and humanitarian access in a collapsed state
Somalia today is the site of three major threats: the world's worst humanitarian crisis; the longest-running instance of complete state collapse; and a robust jihadist movement with links to Al-Qa'ida. External state-building, counter-terrorism and humanitarian policies responding to these threats have worked at cross-purposes. State-building efforts that insist humanitarian relief be channelled through the nascent state in order to build its leg…
The Context of Contemporary Piracy
Piracy cannot be understood or addressed without knowledge of the political and socio-economic context of this criminal enterprise. Piracy economies are dynamic — the drivers, tactics and actors involved can and do change over time, necessitating counter-piracy strategies designed to adapt to these changes. Drawing on the Somalia case, we argue that anti-piracy responses to date have been only partially effective because they are not rooted in a …
Calm between the storms? Patterns of political violence in Somalia, 1950-1980
This article explores the uses of organized violence in Somali politics from the late colonial period up to 1980, an era that – on the surface, at least – appears relatively free of political violence compared to both previous and ensuing decades. After considering critical historical and contextual background, the analysis proposes a typology of political violence in Somalia. It then maps the trends in political violence from 1950 to 1980, looki…
Dangerous Waters
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKen MenkhausKen Menkhaus is Professor of Political Science at Davidson College, and a specialist on the Horn of Africa. His recent publications include Somalia: State Collapse and the Threat of Terrorism (2004) and ‘Governance without Government in Somalia’ in International Security (2007)
U.S. F oreign A ssistance to S omalia
Arrangements sécuritaires locaux dans les régions somalies de la Corne de l'Afrique
Cet article explore les systèmes informels de sécurité et de gouvernance dans les communautés des hinterlands de l'Est de la Corne de l'Afrique, hors des zones effectivement administrées par « leur » gouvernement central. Les régions où l'État a failli ne restent pas sans gouvernance et sont au contraire le lieu de différents arrangements qui assurent des niveaux de sécurité variables aux populations. Il ne s'agit pas de communautés qui s'en reme…
Elections in the Hardest Places
Somalia may be the most nonpermissive postconflict setting in the world in which to conduct elections. In 2016–17, to cope with an array of security, political, and logistical impediments to direct elections, a complex, indirect election system was improvised, involving 275 separate electoral colleges and over 14,000 delegates. The process was ad hoc and nonconstitutional, and plagued by vote buying, intimidation, and political interference. But …
False Start in Africom
With the publication of ‘AFRICOM: Troubled Infancy, Promising Future’, James Forest and Rebecca Crispin make a significant contribution both to analysts and policymakers dealing with the particular
Getting Out vs. Getting Through
Conflict prevention and human security
Getting Out vs. Getting Through
International peacebuilding and the dynamics of local and national reconciliation in Somalia
From a survey of the numerous reconciliation strategies in Somalia, the most successful were at local level, using traditional Somali socal mechanisms, except where new clans had conquered regions. The centrifugal social, political and economic forces in Somalia undermined the prospect for achieving national‐level peace accords
U.S. F oreign A ssistance to S omalia
Somalia
Essay| May 01 1998 Somalia: Political Order in a Stateless Society Ken Menkhaus Ken Menkhaus Ken Menkhaus is an associate professor of political science at Davidson College. In 1993 and 1994 he served as special political adviser to the United Nations Operation in Somalia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1998) 97 (619): 220–224. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1998.97.619.220 Views Icon View…
Conflict and Crisis in the Greater Horn of Africa
Essay| May 01 1999 Conflict and Crisis in the Greater Horn of Africa Ken Menkhaus, Ken Menkhaus Ken Menkhaus is an associate professor of political science at Davidson College; last year he was a senior technical adviser to the UN Development Office for Somalia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar John Prendergast John Prendergast John Prendergast served as director of African affairs at the National Security…
Somalia
One lesson learned since September 11 is that the expanded war on terrorism has created a lens that tends to distort our vision of the complex political dynamics of countries like Somalia. Local political realities are not always assessed in their own right, but instead are interpreted through, and reduced to, the logic of the war on terrorism
Political Islam in Somalia
Bantu ethnic identities in Somalia
Menkhaus Ken. Bantu ethnic identities in Somalia. In: Annales d'Ethiopie. Volume 19, année 2003. pp. 323-339
State collapse in Somalia
Somalia's protracted crisis of complete state collapse is unprecedented and has defied easy explanation. Disaggregating the Somali debacle into three distinct crises – collapse of central government, protracted armed conflict, and lawlessness – helps to produce more nuanced analysis. Significant changes have occurred in the nature and intensity of conflict and lawlessness in Somalia since the early 1990s, with conflicts becoming more localized an…
Vicious circles and the security development nexus in Somalia
The metaphor of the vicious circle is deeply embedded in analysis of protracted conflicts. Yet in at least some instances conflicts that appear to be self‐reinforcing in the short term are in the longer run producing conditions out of which new political orders can emerge. These protracted conflicts are thus dynamic, not static, crises and require post‐conflict assistance strategies that are informed by accurate trend analysis. The case of Somali…
Conflict prevention and human security
Somalia in 2005
Somalia
Governance without Government in Somalia
Zones of state failure are assumed to be anarchic. In reality, communities facing the absence of an effective state authority forge systems of governance to provide modest levels of security and rule of law. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in Somalia, where an array of local and regional governance arrangements have emerged since the 1991 collapse of the state. The Somalia case can be used both to document the rise of governance with…
The crisis in Somalia
Somalia's catastrophic humanitarian crisis of 2007, in which up to 300,000 Mogadishu residents were displaced in fighting pitting Ethiopian and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces against a complex insurgency of clan and Islamist opposition, was the culmination of a series of political miscalculations and misjudgements on the part of Somali and external actors since 2004. They resulted in a cascading sequence of political crises which pl…
Building States to Build Peace
How can legitimate and sustainable states best be established in the aftermath of civil wars? And what role should international actors play in supporting the vital process? Addressing these questions, the authors of Building States to Peace explore the core challenges involved in institutionalizing postconflict states. The combination of thematic chapters and in-depth case studies covers the full range of the most vexing and diverse problems con…
The rise of a mediated state in northern Kenya
In an anarchic corner of northern Kenya in the mid-1990s, a collection of local non-state actors led by a women’s market group created an umbrella movement that came to establish an impressive level of peace and security across an entire region. The Kenyan government forged a formal relationship with this group in Wajir, essentially sub-contracting out important functions of local government to local civic leaders, and using its partnership with …
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of lon…
The rise of a mediated state in northern Kenya
In an anarchic corner of northern Kenya in the mid-199os, a collection oflocal non-state actors led by a women's market group created an umbrella movement that came to establish an impressive level of peace and security across an entire region. The Kenyan government forged a formal relationship with this group in Wajir, essentially sub-contracting out important functions oflocal government to local civic leaders, and using its partnership with th…
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
This article introduces a collection of papers that treat the question of governance in conditions of protracted crises in Subsahara Africa. Contrary to the widespread belief that African conflicts are little more than (undoubtedly complex and intractable) instances of anarchy and chaos, the authors present the reader with tangible evidence of the existence of non-state governance processes by constituencies attempting to manage the perils of lon…
Arrangements sécuritaires locaux dans les régions somalies de la Corne de l'Afrique
Cet article explore les systèmes informels de sécurité et de gouvernance dans les communautés des hinterlands de l'Est de la Corne de l'Afrique, hors des zones effectivement administrées par « leur » gouvernement central. Les régions où l'État a failli ne restent pas sans gouvernance et sont au contraire le lieu de différents arrangements qui assurent des niveaux de sécurité variables aux populations. Il ne s'agit pas de communautés qui s'en reme…
False Start in Africom
With the publication of ‘AFRICOM: Troubled Infancy, Promising Future’, James Forest and Rebecca Crispin make a significant contribution both to analysts and policymakers dealing with the particular
Somalia
This article documents the humanitarian, political and security dimensions of the current Somali crisis and assesses the external policies that are playing an increasingly central role in the conflict. It advances the thesis that in 2007 and 2008 external Western and UN actors treated Somalia as a post-conflict setting when in fact their own policies helped to inflame armed conflict and insecurity there. As a result there was no peace for peaceke…
Dangerous Waters
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKen MenkhausKen Menkhaus is Professor of Political Science at Davidson College, and a specialist on the Horn of Africa. His recent publications include Somalia: State Collapse and the Threat of Terrorism (2004) and ‘Governance without Government in Somalia’ in International Security (2007)
Civil Society and Peacebuilding
Responding to the burgeoning interest in the role of civil society in peace processes, this groundbreaking collaborative effort identifies the constructive functions of civil society in support of peacebuilding both during and in the aftermath of armed conflict. The authors also highlight the factors that support those functions and the obstacles to their fulfillment. A comprehensive analytical framework is applied to 11 country cases, not only a…
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