Unlike the Cold War model where ideology dominated alliances, today’s geopolitical alignments are increasingly transactional. Somaliland offers...
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Prof. Nassir Hussein Kahin is a researcher, educator, and political analyst specializing in self-determination, international law, and the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea region. He is the founder of Horn of Africa Strategic Review, an independent platform for geopolitical analysis, where he writes on regional diplomacy, security, global power competition, and emerging global alignments affecting Somaliland with particular focus on Somaliland’s path to international recognition.
As Somaliland prepares to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the restoration of its sovereignty on May 18,...
Meanwhile, Israel’s formal recognition of Somaliland in December 2025 fundamentally altered diplomatic calculations across the region. The...
Türkiye’s defense of Somali unity emerges as a strategic effort to preserve accumulated leverage in one of...
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