Monday, August 26, 2019

Somaliland's Secession from Somalia

The Palgrave Series in African Borderland Studies published in 2019 Secessionism in African Politics with a chapter titled "Against the Grain: Somaliland's Secession from Somalia" by Markus Virgil Hoehne, University of Leipzig.

The author argues that Somaliland's secession from Somalia did not follow careful cost-benefit calculations or involve the bargaining of a minority with a majority in power or a center. Rather, the unilateral declaration of independence of Somaliland was the unforeseen result of an anti-regime struggle.