Recognition is no longer simply a diplomatic question; it is increasingly a matter of strategic necessity.
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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 the Red Sea becomes a theater of confrontation, the absence of Somaliland from the international system...
Can a society rooted in pastoral egalitarianism and clan autonomy fully transition into a modern state built...
U.S. recognition would signal a shift toward pragmatic, interest-based diplomacy in the Horn of Africa. Failure to...
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