Introduction: Places that do not exist
Challenging received notions of statehood, state failure and state-building
The failing state: What has clan got to do with it?
The emergence of the Somali national movement as a clan-supported opposition force
Clan elders and the forging of a hybrid state
'At the centre of peace and war': pragmatic state building under the Egal government, 1993-1997
Looking like a proper state
Claiming the eastern borderlands
Egal's political and institutional tailpiece
Somaliland as a model for building proper states?.