This article explores how private security companies may gain advantages from liberal peace narratives on state-building, democratization, and global governance. It supports this claim by drawing on the example of peacemaking efforts in Somalia and argues that the predominant narratives surrounding such interventions have helped to both change the type of PSCs enga...

With a constitutionally-based and popularly elected government, the Republic of somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, has a democratic system matched by few others countries in Africa and the Middle East. However, Somaliland's independence has not been recognised internationally. Moreover developments in neighbouring countries suggest that people in So...