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Title: | Somalia: Alternative Scenarios for Political Reconstruction |
Author: | Doornbos, Martin |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 101 |
Issue: | 402 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 93-107 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Somalia |
Subjects: | political change State Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3518659 |
Abstract: | Somalia, which during the 1990s lacked most of the institutions of a central State, is gradually being recomposed. In August 2000, a new interim president, Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, was installed in Mogadishu, followed in October by the appointment of an interim premier, Ali Khalif Galaydh, who was charged with the formation of a transitional cabinet. This lasted only thirteen months, however, and in October 2001, the President began with the formation of a new government, trying to include factions that had hitherto remained unrepresented. Whether these developments will actually lead to a viable political structure in Somalia remains to be seen.The core of the problem is that these efforts towards national State formation clash with regional attempts at political reconstruction, such as those in Puntland. This article analyses alternative scenarios for political reconstruction in Somalia, taking into account the wider international context of the Horn and the role of international actors such as the OAU, EU and the UN. Ref., sum. (An earlier Dutch version appeared in: Internationale Spectator, jrg. 55, nr. 4 (2001), p. 192-198.) |