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Conclusion

Informal Markets and the Politics of Identity

from III - Globalization and Institutional Change in an Era of Scarcity

Khalid Mustafa Medani
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McGill University, Montréal
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Failed states, I argue in the conclusion, do not necessarily afford terrorists a conducive context for recruiting new members. This is due to four challenges that confront terrorist organizations. The first challenge is the lack of government-enforced order in failed states that is needed to provide security against local authorities. Second, is the unreliability of local allies, as in the case of Somalia, where local ties of clan and sect overlap in complicated ways. The third challenge is that the better an area is for training recruits, the more remote and sparsely populated it is, the harder it to meet basic sustenance needs. The fourth problem is the challenge of getting fiscal resources in place. Financial services in the region continue to be weak and Islamic militants have not been able to effectively use the Hawalaat to provide key financial services in weakly governed areas of the Horn of Africa.

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Black Markets and Militants
Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa
, pp. 314 - 324
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Conclusion
  • Khalid Mustafa Medani, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: Black Markets and Militants
  • Online publication: 01 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108961011.010
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  • Conclusion
  • Khalid Mustafa Medani, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: Black Markets and Militants
  • Online publication: 01 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108961011.010
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  • Conclusion
  • Khalid Mustafa Medani, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: Black Markets and Militants
  • Online publication: 01 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108961011.010
Available formats
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