Maandeeq: the dilemma of the post-colonial state in Somalia

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Title:	Maandeeq: the dilemma of the post-colonial state in Somalia
Author:	Ismail, Abdirashid A.
Year:	2016
Periodical:	Nordic Journal of African Studies (ISSN 1459-9465)
Volume:	25
Issue:	1
Pages:	1-22
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Somalia
Subjects:	State political conditions
External link:	https://njas.fi/njas/article/view/115/108
Abstract:	Since its inception in 1960, the Somali Republic has had two main missions: socio-political unification of the Somalis in the Horn of Africa and socio-economic development of the new nation and, accordingly, these were the key issues to be addressed by the post-colonial state in Somalia. However, neither of the two objectives was achieved by the civilian regime in power during the first decade of post-colonial Somalia. By employing the contract theory of the state, I will investigate why the civilian regime failed to achieve meaningful national goals. Using the literature and surveying historical archives and oral traditions, I will compare the post-colonial state in Somalia with the ideal liberal democratic state developed in the social science literature. The article shows that the post-colonial state in Somalia was a distorted version of the liberal democratic state and the failure of the civilian regime could be associated with these distortions. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract]