When there was no aid : war and peace in Somaliland /
"This book explores how popular discourses about war, peace, and international intervention structure the conditions of possibility to such a degree that even the inability of institutions to provide reliable security can stabilize a prolonged period of peace. It argues that Somaliland's p...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | "This book explores how popular discourses about war, peace, and international intervention structure the conditions of possibility to such a degree that even the inability of institutions to provide reliable security can stabilize a prolonged period of peace. It argues that Somaliland's post-conflict peace is less grounded in the constraining power of its in/formal institutions than it is in a powerful discourse about the country's structural, temporal, and physical proximity to war"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 227 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501747151 1501747150 |