African social studies series, ISSN 1568-1263 ; v. 26
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Places that do not exist -- Challenging received notions of statehood, state failure and state-building -- The failing state: What has clan got to do with it? -- The emergence of the Somali national movement as a clan-supported opposition force -- Clan elders and the forging of a hybrid state -- ’At the centre of peace and war’: pragmatic state building under the Egal government, 1993-1997 -- Looking like a proper state -- Claiming the eastern borderlands -- Egal’s political and institutional tailpiece -- Somaliland as a model for building proper states?.
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