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This thesis is about the structure of colonial cultural hegemony in British Somaliland in the late colonial period, 1941-1960. The narrative takes 1941 as its starting point because that date marks a radical discontinuity in the activities of the British administration. In Augus…

The limited body of literature addressing the livelihood of citizens in de facto states presents questions of how inhabitants of these 'sovereignty limbo' spaces live their everyday lives. While previous research on de facto states has extensively documented the political proces…

This study explores the phenomenon of de facto statehood in contemporary international relations. In essence, the de facto state is almost the inverse of what Robert Jackson has termed the "quasi-state." The quasi-state has a flag, a capital city, an ambassador, and a seat at th…

The dominant liberal peacebuilding critiques tends to focus on ‘states’ and the failure of interventions in rebuilding them. Consequently, a standardised critique has emerged largely because the critics apply a broad brush across a diverse range of contexts, programmes, issues a…

This comparative study of two post-conflict "islands of achievement" in failed or fragile states---Somaliland, and Brčko in northern Bosnia---shows that indigenously-driven participatory peacebuilding is less costly and more effective in concurrently building governance and reco…

This work uses definitions of the state and state theory put forth through the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the 1933 Montevideo Convention and the 1963 Organization of African Union Charter to analyze and compare the statehood claims made by South Sudan and Somaliland, respectivel…

This study offers a critical examination of the breakdown of a state and its consequences for the rise of Somaliland, Puntland and other autonomous regional states and the failure to establish a centralized state in Somalia for the last twenty years. Focusing on the events that …

Despite the vast amount of research on self-determination, there are pertinent questions that remain unanswered. Of the questions surrounding self-determination, the most intriguing and perhaps important, is what determines the status of a peoples vying for self-determination. A…

This thesis provides a framework for viewing socio-political contexts and how these relate to interventionist projects. The framework draws on and combines strands from international relations and sociological perspectives of social interaction. The central question becomes how …