Country: Somalia | Journal of Democracy

October 2017, Volume 28, Issue 4

Elections in the Hardest Places: The Case of Somalia

Ken Menkhaus

Is pressing a troubled, intensely fragile “postconflict” country to hold elections a good idea? Somalia did so in late 2016 and early 2017, and the process was not pretty. But was it better than the alternative?

July 2008, Volume 19, Issue 3

The Remarkable Story of Somaliland

Seth Kaplan

Emerging from one of the world’s most notorious failed states, Somaliland has become an oasis of relative democratic stability in the troubled Horn of Africa. What does its story teach us about democratic state-building?