?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=State+building+in+the+Somali+Horn%3A+compromise%2C+competition+and+representation&rft.creator=Walls%2C+M&rft.description=The+achievements+of+successive+Somaliland+governments+in+building+legitimacy+and+conducting+elections+have+attracted+widespread+praise.+While+the+near+future+will+present+substantial+challenges+to+the+durability+of+past+successes%2C+a+close+analysis+shows+that+Somaliland+offers+a+great+many+useful+lessons+about+how+to+build+a+Somali+nation+state.+An+established%2C+discursive+system+of+consensus-based+political+participation+is+as+important+as+democratisation+through+elections.+This+system+is+inevitably+imperfect%2C+but+it+has+played+a+key+role+in+securing+broad%2C+though+qualified%2C+acceptance+of+state+institutions.+A+resurgence+of+optimism+in+southern+Somalia+has+diverted+attention+from+more+sustained%2C+if+less+spectacular%2C+political+accommodations+negotiated+in+Somaliland+and+elsewhere+in+the+Somali+Horn+of+Africa.+Mundane+lessons+learned+in+these+territories+have+once+again+been+relegated+to+the+margins.+International+participants+and+elite+partners+in+Mogadishu%2C+Nairobi%2C+Washington+and+London+are+absorbed+by+Somali+realpolitik+and+the+apparent+progress+of+a+grand+technocratic+exercise+in+state-building.+It+is+imperative+that+those+wishing+to+support+continued+political+development+in+Somaliland+and+the+region+pay+greater+heed+to+the+historical+and+cultural+context+in+which+it+is+occurring.&rft.subject=Somaliland%2C+Somalia%2C+state+formation%2C+politics%2C+development&rft.publisher=Africa+Research+Institute&rft.date=2014-12-04&rft.type=Report&rft.language=eng&rft.source=++++(Counterpoints+++).+Africa+Research+Institute%3A+London%2C+UK.+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1472013%2F1%2FStatebuilding-in-the-Somali-Horn.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1472013%2F&rft.rights=open