TY - BOOK AU - Renders,Marleen ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Consider Somaliland: state-building with traditional leaders and institutions T2 - African social studies series, AV - DT407.4 .R46 2012eb U1 - 967.73 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Leiden [The Netherlands], Boston PB - Brill KW - Nation-building KW - Somaliland (Secessionist government, 1991- ) KW - Newly independent states KW - Africa, Northeast KW - Politics and government KW - Somalia KW - 1991- KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Places that do not exist -- Challenging received notions of statehood, state failure and state-building -- The failing state: What has clan got to do with it? -- The emergence of the Somali national movement as a clan-supported opposition force -- Clan elders and the forging of a hybrid state -- 'At the centre of peace and war': pragmatic state building under the Egal government, 1993-1997 -- Looking like a proper state -- Claiming the eastern borderlands -- Egal's political and institutional tailpiece -- Somaliland as a model for building proper states?; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10529638 ER -