Re: Somalia
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Somalia = good example? Yes or no?
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Good example of what?
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If anything, Somalia might be a good example of a possible transition from a government state to an(admittedly oxymoronic term) anarchic state.
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Yes it could. I also don't think *any* anarchic state is particularly a good thing for Somalia. If it's culture is one that doesn't respect private property, contract, and trade then it's going to be [censored] regardless.
Anyways, it's not even a question of *if* Somalia can be stateless. They've been a stateless society until western powers attempted to institute it on them. This mysteriously coincided with chaos.
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What remains to be seen, and likely won't be known for quite some time, is whether the transition will continue, whether a government (or many governments) will form,
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Well as long as the US and UN continue pumping money and support into governments that the Somalis don't even recognize as legitmate there remains the chance that a state will form. When they leave sure there is a chance even then states could be formed, but that runs counter to the history of their culture.
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whether the economy will grow/thrive/survive, whether any economic growth can be fairly attributable to the free market given the large amounts of aid from both non-governmental and governmental foreign agencies.
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"Somalia's pastoral economy is now stronger than that of either neighboring Kenya or Ethiopia. It is the largest exporter of livestock of any East African country. Telecommunications have burgeoned in Somalia; a call from a mobile phone is cheaper in Somalia than anywhere else in Africa. A small number of international investors are finding that the level of security of property and contract in Somalia warrants doing business there. Among these companies are Dole, BBC, the courier DHL, British Airways, General Motors, and Coca Cola, which recently opened a large bottling plant in Mogadishu. A 5-star Ambassador Hotel is operating in Hargeisa, and three new universities are fully functional: Amoud University (1997) in Borama, and Mogadishu University (1997), and University of Benadir (2002) in Mogadishu."
What of these have been provided by foriegn aid (not rhetorical or sarcastic, I don't know much about the area but I'm assuming this is a market success)?
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