Governance without Government in Somalia
Spoilers, State Building, and the Politics of Coping
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11262614 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ken Menkhaus (Ken Menkhaus is Professor of Political Science at Davidson College., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 74-106 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2889 • E-ISSN: 1531-4804 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/isec.2007.31.3.74 |
| OpenAlex | W2123405189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 261 |
| References cited | 19 |
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 without government in a zone of state collapse and to assess the changing interests of local actors seeking to survive and prosper in a context of state failure. The interests of key actors can and do shift over time as they accrue resources and investments; the shift “from warlord to landlord” gives some actors greater interests in governance and security, but not necessarily in state revival; risk aversion infuses decisionmaking in areas of state failure; and state-building initiatives generally fail to account for the existence of local governance arrangements. The possibilities and problems of the “mediated state model,” in which weak states negotiate political access through existing local authorities, are considerable
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Beyond the “Liberal Peace
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
New political order in the DR Congo? the transformation of regulation
New political order in the DR Congo? the transformation of regulation
Witnessing Contemporary Somalia from Abroad
The Ideology of Failed States
The African Diaspora and Women’s Struggles in Africa
Counterinsurgent Warfare and the Decentering of Sovereignty in Somalia
The African Diaspora and Women’s Struggles in Africa
Aid and institution-building in fragile states
Strong NGOs and Weak States
Trade Makes States
Trust as Social Infrastructure in Somali Trading Networks
The Insurgent's Dilemma
Black Markets and Militants
The Revival and Re-Embedding of Somali Ports
Black Markets and Militants
Failures of the state failure debate
The Somali Media, Diaspora communities and the concept of conflict re-creation
Informality, Religious Conflict, and Governance in Northern Nigeria
Legal Pluralism in Theory and Practice
A Winning Team of Losers
The Supply and Demand of Rebel Governance
Whom You Don't Know, You Don't Trust
From Refugees to Citizens? How Refugee Youth in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya Use Education to Challenge Their Status as Non-Citizens
Beyond fragility
Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’
Generating Safety from Below
The South African policing ‘nexus’
Relational Leadership and Governing
O nacionalismo somali e as instabilidades regionais no Chifre da África
Governing Dahiya
The cultural roots of peace
African solutions to African problems
What fuels terrorism in Somalia? Perspectives from the jihadist group Al-Shabaab
Investigating the Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Financial Practices in the Fragile States
Vigilante youths and counterinsurgency in Northeastern Nigeria
Participation of civil society in decisions to mitigate environmental degradation in post-conflict societies
Everyday governance on the Somalia‐Kenya border
Adaptive programming and going with the grain
NGOs' least‐played role
Beyond Claim‐Rights
Gezi Park as Spontaneous Development
Framing Famine
Who should the police be? Finding a new narrative for community policing in South Africa
Urban Governance Beyond the State
Responding to state failure in Somalia
Governance Interventions in Conflict-Affected Countries
Taxation, Political Accountability and Foreign Aid
Contending Orders
The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures
Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo
Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development
The Security Arena in Africa
Private Actors and Public Governance Beyond the State
Transnational Corporations' Outward Expression of Inward Self-Constitution
Tax Relations in Contexts of Fragility
Beyond the state’s reach
The Arab Spring
Gouvernance hybride des parkings publics à Lubumbashi
Translating Race across Time and Space
State and Clan Violence in Somalia
Hybrid Peace, Hybrid War
A Lust for Treasure and a Love of Gold…or Desperation? Global Facilitation of Piracy, Neoliberal Policies and the Control of the Somali Pirate
Contested Land Governance in Cameroon
Famine, remittances, and global justice
Governing in the shadows
Hybridity, Political Order and Legitimacy
Complexities and Challenges for Civil Society Building in Post-Conflict Settings
Somaliland; the viability of a liberal peacebuilding critique beyond state building, state formation and hybridity
Securitisation gaps
When state capacity dissolves
More attacks or more services? Insurgent groups’ behaviour during the Covid-19 pandemic in Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia
Transformative spaces in the making
How can civil society support reconciliations and civil engagement in Somalia
National heroes or coming anarchy? Vigilant youth and the “war on terror” in Nigeria
Comparison of impact and cost-effectiveness of rotavirus supplementary and routine immunization in a complex humanitarian emergency, Somali case study
The Visual Framing of ‘Failed’ States
Legitimacy in Conflict
Deradicalization as Soft Counter-insurgency
From Hybridity to Standardization
Security Provision after Regime Change
Bringing the Outside In
Political Parties and Minority Governance in Hybrid Political Orders
Normative and instrumental judgements of policing and their relative impacts on police empowerment during protracted conflict
Ethics after intervention
State-building in Afghanistan
Power and Recognition
Investigating the role of legitimacy in the political order of conflict-torn spaces
Bounded Rule and Regional Stability in Fragile States
Social reintegration of former al-Shabaab militants
Imams and Patrons
Degrees of legitimacy
Somaliland
Where now for the critique of the liberal peace
Failed statebuilding versus peace formation
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq
Resources, conflict and governance
The possibility of state formation and the limitations of liberal international state-building
Non-state armed actors and contested sovereignties in internationalized civil wars
Failures of the state failure debate
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
The Formation of National States in Western Europe
Power Elites and State Building
Generating Safety from Below
The South African policing ‘nexus’
Framing Famine
Who should the police be? Finding a new narrative for community policing in South Africa
Sovereignty Reconsidered
Somalia
Somaliland
New hope for Somalia? The building block approach
Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes
Rebel movements and proxy warfare
The politics of rebellion and intervention in Ituri
Vicious circles and the security development nexus in Somalia
The transnational political engagements of refugees
Learning from Somalia
| Unique citing works | 261 |
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| Citations per year | 13,74 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 256 |