Ending Conflict in the Horn of Africa
The Nordic Africa Institute has published an excellent paper on one of the world’s most conflict prone regions: the Horn of Africa (which, broadly defined, encompasses Somalia/Somaliland, Eritrea,...
View ArticleHas (Former) Yemeni President Saleh Really Ceded Power?
“I have 33 years of experience in power and I know the difficulties, I know the negatives and positives. The one who clings to power is mad.” – Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen March 11,...
View ArticleNew Book on the “Fault Lines” that Plague Fragile States
A new book edited by Jeffrey Herbst, Terence McNamee, and Greg Mills discusses what I consider the most important problem in fragile states: weak social cohesion. It looks at “fragmented and weak...
View ArticleSomalia’s 20-Year Experiment in Hybrid Governance
By Ken Menkhaus, Davidson College The below are excerpts from an article originally appearing in World Politics Review. Later this month, Somalia’s eight-year political transition is scheduled to end...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn From State-Making in Somaliland — By Dominik Balthasar
The de facto state of Somaliland has featured prominently as constituting an exceptional case of state-making in both academic and policy communities. Consequently, the case has not only come to be...
View ArticleEnding Conflict in the Horn of Africa
The Nordic Africa Institute has published an excellent paper on one of the world’s most conflict prone regions: the Horn of Africa (which, broadly defined, encompasses Somalia/Somaliland, Eritrea,...
View ArticleHas (Former) Yemeni President Saleh Really Ceded Power?
“I have 33 years of experience in power and I know the difficulties, I know the negatives and positives. The one who clings to power is mad.” – Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen March 11,...
View ArticleNew Book on the “Fault Lines” that Plague Fragile States
A new book edited by Jeffrey Herbst, Terence McNamee, and Greg Mills discusses what I consider the most important problem in fragile states: weak social cohesion. It looks at “fragmented and weak...
View ArticleSomalia’s 20-Year Experiment in Hybrid Governance
By Ken Menkhaus, Davidson College The below are excerpts from an article originally appearing in World Politics Review. Later this month, Somalia’s eight-year political transition is scheduled to end...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn From State-Making in Somaliland — By Dominik Balthasar
The de facto state of Somaliland has featured prominently as constituting an exceptional case of state-making in both academic and policy communities. Consequently, the case has not only come to be...
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