Although the conundrums of why states falter, how they are reconstituted, and under what
conditions war may be constitutive of state-making have received much scholarly attention …

This thesis is about young second-generation Somali women in London who, in recent
years, have begun to practise Islam. Based on over 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, it …

This article is concerned with the relationship between the quality of a country's governance
institutions and the degree of civil order it experiences. Using evidence from Somaliland, it …

Much of the literature on the history of liberal peace-and state-building in South Sudan
focuses most directly on the actions of the international community as being responsible for …

As international law and legally recognised states have been generally taken as the primary
structures and actors of international politics, polities without those legal rights and …

Communities in the Karamoja Cluster and Horn of Africa largely depend on agro-
pastoralism. 1 They lead nomadic lives in adverse environmental conditions, migrating with …