The attack A military base 70 km south of Mogadishu was attacked on 14th of august by Shebab Islamist fighters, who blew up car bombs and opened fire on the soldiers, AFP learned from military sources. “After the explosions, they ...
Chapter 3: Somali identity and statehood This chapter, argues that Somali identity poses a challenge to the general understanding of statehood by the “state failure” literature. This will be done using constructivist theory to analyse the impact of the defining ...
Analysing Somalia’s State Failure part I This dissertation aims to answer the question of how Somali struggle to establish a stable central authority is generated. The significance of this thesis lays in the fact that although State Failure theory is ...