TITLE:
Somalia’s Foreign Policy: Stages and Initial Odds
AUTHORS:
Abdalgani Aid Almi
KEYWORDS:
Somalia, Foreign Policy, Interest, Alliance
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.11 No.3,
May
27,
2021
ABSTRACT: Somalia is a state not like the other states
in Africa, it’s a state that came into existence after the unification of
British Somaliland and Italian Somalia. It was considered to be one of the most
democratic and civilized country in the region. But the administration of that
time took a very naive initiative to manage the circumstances. Due to the cold
war and Ethiopia’s antagonistic design against the newly established state of
the Somali Republic, Somalia was compelled to develop close relations with the
USSR. The roles, stages and initial odds of Somalia’s foreign policy are
discussed in this paper, with the use of primary and secondary sources of
information. In conclusion, Somalia has limited options for its foreign policy,
because of its financial position. Thus, the sovereignty of the country was
compromised many times.