Formation and recognition of new states: Somaliland in contrast to Eritrea

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Review of African Political Economy

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Formation and recognition of new states: Somaliland in contrast to Eritrea

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Author(s): Hussein M Adam ^a

Publication date (Print): March 1994

Journal: Review of African Political Economy

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‘Somaliland’ has reasserted the separate existence it had as the colony of British Somaliland before independence and union with the former Italian Somalia in 1960. It has avoided the the devastation of warlordism that has afflicted the rest of Somalia through compromise politics between clan elders. However, its de factostatehood since 1991 has not received the international recognition accorded Eritrea in 1993. The experiences of Somaliland and Eritrea in the circumstances of their post‐colonial union with other entities, in their liberation movements and in their current politics are contrasted. It is suggested that there can be mutual learning from Somaliland's consociational, ethnic democracy and Eritrea's ‘radical social democracy’, of an eventual, orchestrated multi‐partism that eschews ethnic and religious divides.

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Title: Review of African Political Economy

Publisher: Review of African Political Economy

ISSN (Print): 0305-6244

ISSN (Electronic): 1740-1720

Publication date (Print): March 1994

Volume: 21

Issue: 59

Pages: 21-38

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^a Associate Professor in Political Science , College of the Holy Cross , Worcester , MA , USA

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Publisher ID: 8704034 Coden ID: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 21, No. 59, March 1994, pp. 21-38

DOI: 10.1080/03056249408704034

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[1] Bayart Jean‐Francois. . 1993. . The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly . , London : : Longman. .

[2] Bongartz Maria. . 1991. . The Civil War in Somalia . , (Current African Issues II). Nordiska Afrikainstitute. .

[3] Chege Michael. . 1992. . ‘Remembering Africa’. . Foreign Affairs . , Vol. 71:

[4] Contini Paolo. . 1969. . The Somali Republic: An Experiment in Legal Integration .

[5] Davidson Basil. . 1969. . The Liberation of Guinea . , Baltimore : : Penguin Press. .

[6] Drysdale John. . 1964. . The Somali Dispute . , New York : : Praeger. .

[7] Farer Tom. . 1976. . War Clouds on the Horn of Africa . , New York : : Carnegie. .

[8] Gebre‐Medhin Jordan. . 1989. . Peasants and ‘Nationalism in Eritrea . , Trenton : : Red Sea Press. .

[9] Boutros Boutros Ghali ‘Further Report of the Secretary‐General Submitted in Pursuance of Paragraphs 18 and 19 of Resolution 794’ ( 1992 ), a mimeographed document ( New York : A United Nations Publication , 3 March 1993), Paragraph 98, p. 21 .

[10] Lewis I.M.. 1965. . The Modern History of Somaliland . , London : : Weidenfeld and Nicolson. .

[11] 1990. . “The Ogaden and the Fragility of Somali Segmented Nationalism’. . Horn of Africa . , Vol. xiii((1 and 2)) January‐March, and April‐June;

[12] Markakis John. . 1990. . National and Class Conflict in the Horn of Africa . , London : : Zed Books. .

[13] Nzongola‐Ntalaja Georges. , ed. 1991. . Conflict in the Horn of Africa . , Atlanta : : African Studies Association Press. .

[14] Prunier Gerard. . 1990. . ‘A Candid View of the Somali National Movement’. . Horn of Africa . , Vol. xiii((3 and 4)) July‐September, October‐December;

[15] Rajagopal B. and Carroll Anthony. . 1992. . “The Case for the Independent Statehood of Somaliland’. ”. Washington, DC :

[16] Selassie Bereket Habte. . 1980. . Conflict and Intervention in the Horn of Africa . , New York : : Monthly Review Press. .

[17] Steiner Jurg. . 1991. . European Democracies . , New York : : Longman. .

[18] Touval Saadia. . 1963. . Somali Nationalism . , Cambridge : : Harvard University Press. .

[19] Trevaskis K.N.. 1960. . Eritrea: A Colony in Transition: 1941–52 . , New York : : Oxford, University Press. .

[20] Visscher Charles de. . 1968. . Theory and Reality in Public International Law . , Princeton : : Princeton University Press. .

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