Puntland’s Strategic Middle Path
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Puntland’s Foreign Policy Doctrine
Strategic Balance, External Partnership, and Economic Statecraft
Diversified partnerships and economic statecraft in support of strategic autonomy.
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Economic sovereignty, state capacity, and strategic balance.
Fiscal policy research on public capacity, economic development, and strategic control.
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Internal cohesion, public authority, and strategic autonomy
Governing competition over water, settlement, and livelihoods through impartial protection and durable public institutions.
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Mustafe G. Guufe
Statecraft · Strategic autonomy · Institutional resilience
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Abdirahman A. Dahir
Constitutional order and federal design · Puntland statecraft and self-government · Institutional development and fiscal capacity · Political philosophy and civic education · Strategic autonomy and external partnerships
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Foundations of Statecraft
Strategy, fiscal autonomy, and external partnerships examined as one institutional undertaking.
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