State collapse in Somalia
Second thoughts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11905087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ken Menkhaus (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 97 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056244.2003.9659774 |
| OpenAlex | W2048870900 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 5 |
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 and less bloody, and criminality more constrained by customary law and private security forces. These trends are linked to changing interests on the part of the political and economic elite, who now profit less from war and banditry and more from commerce and service business that require a predictable operating environment. The prolonged collapse of Somalia's central government cannot be explained as a reflection of local interests. The country's elite would profit greatly from the revival of a recognized but ineffective ‘paper’ state. The inability of Somalia's leaders to cobble together such a state is best explained as a product of risk aversion. Political and economic actors in collapsed states fear a change in the operating environment which, though far from ideal, is one in which they have learned to survive and profit
Autocracy · Democracy · Development economics · Economic collapse · Economics · Elite · Lawlessness · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regime change · Somali · Cuban History and Society · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Trade Makes States
Trust as Social Infrastructure in Somali Trading Networks
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
Humiliation Experienced by Somali Refugees in Norway
Participation of civil society in decisions to mitigate environmental degradation in post-conflict societies
Beyond Claim‐Rights
Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints
Surviving the War in Syria
Symptoms of a New Politics
The machinations of the Majerteen Sultans
Violence as politics in eastern Africa, 1940-1990
Hobbesian Hierarchy
Neo-patrimonialism and the discourse of state failure in Africa
Colapso u orden? Cuestionando el colapso del estado en África
Alternative ethnique à l'État postcolonial
Family Power
The interplay of interventions and hybridisation in Puntland’s security sector
Writing Social Activism in the Refugee Camp in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise
Oil and peace
Re-imagining the father-figure in contemporary writing about Somalia
Failing and the Seven Seas? Somali Piracy in Global Perspective
How can civil society support reconciliations and civil engagement in Somalia
The Practice and Theory of US Statebuilding
Rethinking responses to state failure, with special reference to Africa
Citizenship among young adult Somalis in Norway
War on Piracy
From self-reliant churches to self-governing communities
Leaving Mogadishu
The Prospects for Transitional Justice in Catalyzing Socioeconomic Justice in Postconflict States
Effective responses
Somalia
Being and becoming a state
Assessing the speculative dynamics and determinants of residential apartment rentals in Mogadishu, Somalia
Delivering a family‐based child mental health promotion program among two resettled refugee communities during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Institutional implant and economic stagnation
Using ERGMs to Disaggregate Displacement Cascades
Conflicts of preferences and domestic constraints
Beyond the Other? A postcolonial critique of the failed state thesis
Evaluating the effect of military intervention on rebel governance in terms of disaggregated human security
Security in the 'Periphery' of post-colonial states
Understanding al-Shabaab
Somali Ventures in China
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,19 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |