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Hello, you're very welcome to Long Reads, a Jacobin podcast where we look in depth at

political topics and thinkers.

My name's Daniel Finn, and the features editor here at Jacobin, and I'll be presenting

the show.

Western media coverage has often depicted Somalia as the classic example of a failed state.

For the past three decades, no government has been able to control its national territory.

But news reports about terrorism and piracy have obscured the fact that Somalia is very much

a part of the world's system.

From the Cold War to the War on Terror, outside intervention by the world's most powerful

states has played a major role in worsening the Somali crisis.

Our guest today for a conversation about modern Somalia is Elizabeth Schmidt.

She's a professor emeritus of history at Loyola University, Maryland, who specializes in

the history of Africa.

Her most recent book is Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War.

How did the post-colonial Somali state emerge after the period of British and Italian rule?

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