Making and breaking states in Africa : the Somali experience - Lewis, I. M. (Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, 2010)
A lop-sided alliance : Somaliland and Somalia -- The bloodless coup -- Scientific socialism Somali style -- Noises off : Ethiopia and Somalia confront each other in a controversial conference -- Restoring hope : the failure of top-down intervention -- Making peace from the grass roots : Somaliland's success -- Mogadishu scrap merchants form a gangster government : an EU contribution -- Visible and invisible differences : the Somali paradox -- Charles Geshekter's interview with the author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Nation-building -- Somalia; Failed states -- Somalia; Somalia -- Politics and government -- 1960-1991.; Somalia -- Politics and government -- 1991-