Liquid Territoriality and Al-Shabaab

Liquid Territoriality and Al-Shabaab

territoriality

violent non-state actors

Al-Shabaab

Somalia

state failure

The text presents a contribution to the study of territoriality of violent non-state actors in areas of limited internal state power projection. It presentsthe strategy of liquid territoriality as a survival strategy of the territorialviolent non-state actors, as well as a strategy to develop protostatestructures. It builds on three pillars – minimal opposition of (primarilyexternal) state security services, support from the local population, and theability to reflect the dynamic development of power distribution. Thisstrategy is later applied to Al-Shabaab. This application helps us to betterunderstand not only the territorial development of the movement but alsothe limits of territorial control of violent non-state actors in general.

Doboš, Bohumil

Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 55 No. 3 (2020); 31-49

2788-2993

2788-2985

10.32422/mv.55.3

Institute of International Relations Prague

2020-09-01

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0

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eng

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