CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Dawit, Shumbulo Ephrem |
|---|---|
| Title | Political Islam in Sudan and Somalia: Explanation of Variations in Stateness |
| Summary | Pursuing Political Islam in Sudan and Somalia takes the simultaneity approach that shows both a “top down form of Islamisation (Tibi 2009, p.155) and “bottom up policy” for building the state (Baran 2008, pp.55-69). The present thesis provides an explanation on how Islamism revives as a social and political movement especially in the 1990s and gives birth to variants of Islamist groups in both countries. The findings of the research demonstrate the failure of Islamism as a state building project in countries under study. It explains a ‘top down form of Islamisation’ as one of the reasons for the recent partition of North and South Sudan. It also examines how a ‘bottom up policy’ by the militant Islamists in Somalia contributes to the deadliest forms of conflict and lawlessness. The relationship between Islamism and the aspects of state building processes are explained with the application of the concept of the ‘stateness’ of the countries. |
| Supervisor | Anton Pelinka, Emel Ackali |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/dawit_ephrem-shumbulo.pdf |
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