Institution-building in Somalia has met with high levels of failure for two decades. But successes have occurred in other Somali-inhabited regions of the eastern Horn, and have been especially present at the local and municipal level. The most effective aid to institution-building in Somalia has...

Institution-building in Somalia has met with high levels of failure for two decades. But successes have occurred in other Somali-inhabited regions of the eastern Horn, and have been especially present at the local and municipal level. The most effective aid to institution-building in Somalia has...

The article is a comparative analysis of the foreign policy options and behavior of six northeast African states - Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, and Kenya - in response to the rise of Saudi regional predominance since 1967. (DÜI-Ott)

Somalia's catastrophic humanitarian crisis of 2007, in which up to 300,000 Mogadishu residents were displaced in fighting pitting Ethiopian and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces against a complex insurgency of clan and Islamist opposition, was the culmination of a series of political...

Twenty years of external mediation and intermittent peace operations in Somalia have failed to end the Somali crisis and have in some ways made things worse. Two schools of thought – one emphasizing missed opportunities on the part of outside actors, the other stressing the intractability of...

Institution-building in Somalia has met with high levels of failure for two decades. But successes have occurred in other Somali-inhabited regions of the eastern Horn, and have been especially present at the local and municipal level. The most effective a