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 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--

• | Author: Sarah G. Phillips
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: March 15, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1501747150
• | ISBN-13: 9781501747151