Internationalised Constitution Making and State Formation - Negotiating Peace and Statehood in South Sudan and Somaliland

This book presents an in-depth and nuanced interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of (post-)conflict constitution-making in South Sudan and Somaliland, exploring the ways in which the two emerging states negotiate statehood in a globalised world.

List of contents

Prelude: Rethinking the Narratives of the Birth of a New Nation
1. Framing a Comparative Constitutional Ethnography
2. Travelling Constitution-Making Models and Legal Pluralism
3. Recipients of the Constitution-Making Model: The Case of Post-Colonial Africa
4. Navigating within the Constitution-Making Model: South Sudan
5. Innovating Beyond the Constitution-Making Model: Somaliland
6. Recapsulating Lessons Learned and Spatialising Constitution-Making
Bibliography

About the author

Katrin Seidel is a habilitated adjunct professor, currently working as a senior researcher at the European Center of Just Transition Research and Impact-Driven Transfer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She was Acting Professor for Critical African Studies at the Leipzig University and Senior Research Fellow in the Law & Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Based on her interdisciplinary background in law, African/Asian studies, and anthropology, her research is situated at the intersection of legal pluralism, statehood and governance, conflict resolution, and postcolonialism.

Summary

This book presents an in-depth and nuanced interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of (post-)conflict constitution-making in South Sudan and Somaliland, exploring the ways in which the two emerging states negotiate statehood in a globalised world.

Product details

• Authors: Katrin Seidel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032612393
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3261239-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Comparative Constitutional Change
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Comparative, Politics & government, Politics and government, comparative law, Social Law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Social law and Medical law, South Sudan, Republic of Somaliland