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The international community’s intervention in fragile or failed states mostly is welcomed. But on the other hand, the external intervention revolves around the interest, ideas, strategies and the policies of the intervener. This study explores Turkish model in Somalia`s state building and argues that the engagement in civilian power with humanitarian and development assistance, is more effective than coercive military intervention. Turkey’s civilian power approach has a positive impact on Somali state building process, such as peace building and political process, enhancing the capacity of state institutions and socioeconomic development of the country.

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State building, Civilian power, development, Somalia, Turkey,

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

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This article has two primary objectives:

a) to introduce the debate about kinship systems and socio-political identity and organization in Somalia. I do this by reviewing an exchange at a British tribunal between two prominent academics in Somali studies: Abdi I. Samatar and I. M. Lewis;

b) to reflect on what is at stake in this debate by pointing at some of the potential consequences of the current U.N.-led state-building project in Somalia, which has embraced one side of this debate.

Keywords:

Somalia, kinship system, Somali political identity, clanism, state-building, genealogy, colonialism, and anthropology,

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

ISOS

Posts classified under: state-building

Turkish Model in Somalia: Civilian Power Approach in State Building Process

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The State and its Fragments: Debates on Kinship and the State in Somalia

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