Clan Federalism in Somalia

Leonid Issaev and Andrey Zakharov
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Leonid Issaev: HSE University
Andrey Zakharov: Russian State University for the Humanities

Chapter Chapter 8 in Federalism and Decentralization in Africa, 2024, pp 157-184 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Somalia is a country where decentralization realizes from above (by initiative of clan's elites). Federalism is a way of achieving political goals for Somali clans. This is a country that not only has a constitutional name, but also politically strives (even if not very successfully so far) to become a federation, because for it this, in fact, is the only opportunity to save itself as a political, economic, social integrity. The diversity of the Somali administrative-territorial palette is dizzying, but if this swinging state manages to survive, it will be exclusively in a federal guise.

Keywords: Clans; Somalia; Civil War; Siad Barre; Great Somalia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-72574-6_8

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