Internationalised Constitution Making and State Formation: Negotiating Peace and Statehood in South Sudan and Somaliland

This book presents an in-depth and nuanced interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of (post-)conflict constitution-making in South Sudan and Somaliland, exploring the ways in which the two emerging states negotiate statehood in a globalised world.

Katrin Seidel is Acting Professor for Critical African Studies at the Leipzig University, an associate and former senior research fellow in the Law & Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Based on her interdisciplinary background in Law, African/Asian studies and Anthropology, her research is situated at the intersection of legal pluralism, statehood and governance, and de/coloniality.