State Collapse and Post-Conflict Development in Africa: The Case of Somalia (1960-2001)

by Abdullah Mohamoud

Mohamoud's work considers the underlying causes for the breakdown of the state across both time and space. Time is considered across the triple history: the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial processes. Space is used in the sense of taking the whole of Somalia as a unit of analysis. This approach enables the discovery of different structural crises over a period of time and examines these cumulative effects on the current upheavals in Somalia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557534136
• ISBN13: 9781557534132
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"