This thesis-driven essay deals with the quandary of order in Somalia, the purpose being to determine the factors that maintain the current condition of statelessness. An important aspect of this exercise is to highlight the differences within the region embodied by the legal unit of Somalia. Located in the North of the country, two major entities have developed, Somaliland and Puntland, in stark contrast to southern and central Somalia which “are marred by violence and the absence of effective political order.” This disparity between a merely functioning and existing with or without lawful authority in States in the north compared to ineffective legitimate States in the South is essential to understand the political relations in today Somalia.
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Is modern day Somalia the product of an ancient clan-system? A safe harbor for radical Islamists? A humanitarian tragedy? The centers of operation for infamous pirates? Numerous States? The result of proxy wars? This paper will not be able to answer all of those questions, nevertheless it will attempt to define terms and offers shy propositions to the quandary of today’s Somalia. The countless visages of Somalia appear to relentlessly evade the awareness of the international community. And yet we cannot steer clear of Somalia which may one day threaten the framework of world security then the next disrupt global …show more content…
However, this state o political chaos has not been always correct in relation to the social problem of order since 1960, and not even since1991. Wendt who stated his second proposition “the Realist tradition of International Relations (IR) has tended to argue that shared ideas and norms, usually associated with the political problem of order, cannot be held outside of the sovereign state.” This being said, not all who have studied and argued about Somali can be labeled Realists in the IR sense of the term. Nonetheless, the failed State debate has to a great extent had conflated a number of the political and social notions of order and consequently that order requires a ‘sovereign’
Is modern day Somalia the product of an ancient clan-system? A safe harbor for radical Islamists? A humanitarian tragedy? The centers of operation for infamous pirates? Numerous States? The result of proxy wars? This paper will not be able to answer all of those questions, nevertheless it will attempt to define terms and offers shy propositions to the quandary of today’s Somalia. The countless visages of Somalia appear to relentlessly evade the awareness of the international community. And yet we cannot steer clear of Somalia which may one day threaten the framework of world security then the next disrupt global …show more content…
However, this state o political chaos has not been always correct in relation to the social problem of order since 1960, and not even since1991. Wendt who stated his second proposition “the Realist tradition of International Relations (IR) has tended to argue that shared ideas and norms, usually associated with the political problem of order, cannot be held outside of the sovereign state.” This being said, not all who have studied and argued about Somali can be labeled Realists in the IR sense of the term. Nonetheless, the failed State debate has to a great extent had conflated a number of the political and social notions of order and consequently that order requires a ‘sovereign’