Formation and recognition of new states: Somaliland in contrast to Eritrea
Open Access
- 1 March 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Review of African Political Economy in Review of African Political Economy
- Vol. 21 (59)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03056249408704034
Abstract
‘Somaliland’ has reasserted the separate existence it had as the colony of British Somaliland before independence and union with the former Italian Somalia in 1960. It has avoided the the devastation of warlordism that has afflicted the rest of Somalia through compromise politics between clan elders. However, its de factostatehood since 1991 has not received the international recognition accorded Eritrea in 1993. The experiences of Somaliland and Eritrea in the circumstances of their post‐colonial union with other entities, in their liberation movements and in their current politics are contrasted. It is suggested that there can be mutual learning from Somaliland's consociational, ethnic democracy and Eritrea's ‘radical social democracy’, of an eventual, orchestrated multi‐partism that eschews ethnic and religious divides.Keywords
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