of statehood and the legitimacy of a constitution, the study compares two cases—South Sudan and Somaliland—to explore … international intervention, with Somaliland at the other 'extreme'. This paper demonstrates that the actual process matters and once …. In Somaliland the societal consensus production, which included negotiating a governmental structure, was in the hands of …

of the independent, yet internationally unrecognized Republic of Somaliland. Rather than seeing khat as a hindrance for … viability of Somaliland and to the formation of political practices and identities. Khat was linked to the collapse of the … Somali state, but has also been instrumental in securing peace in Somaliland in the early 90s. In this sense, khat should be …