Barre's Regime Case Study

for the parliament in which the “People’s Parliament” would be elected, when in fact the all the parliament members elected were already associated with the ruling party the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP) (Shay, 2008). Succeeding the 1979 elections, Barre reshuffled the cabinet and abolished his three vice presidents and the old Supreme Revolutionary Council was revived. The move by Barre resulted in a confusing and severely overlapping bureaucratic structure and essentially left the decision making solely in Barre’s hands (Shay, 2008). All of these gestures to make the country and Barre’s regime look as if it was becoming more liberal, in essence was a smokescreen in an effort to acquire more aid.
The 1980’s in Somalia were dismal,

In 1979 the refugees had reached the official number of 1.3 million with more than half established in the north (Ahmed & Green, 1999). This had put tremendous pressure on the nation’s economy and Barre oppressed those refugees unrelentingly. Barre’s regime was especially hostile to those refugees in the north, particularly the people of the Issaq clan; in addition Barre used the refugee crisis as an excuse to request foreign aid. These northerners were barred from working in the government and many of the Ogaden refugees were recruited by the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) and were terrorizing the Issaq people living in the region to the point where they feared the WSLF more the Ethiopian Army (The African Watch Committee, 1990). The actions of the Barre regime and the subjugation of the Issaq people led to a civil war and the region which is known as Somaliland declared its

A state is based and evaluated on the deliverance political goods and its governing effectiveness. States can be arranged in order of being strong states, weak states, failing states, failed states, and collapsed states. According to Robert Rotberg who has explained that states have significant variances in performance and that strong states have superior performance than weak states in the fact that they can better deliver political goods (Rotberg,