Publications
Policy papers, research studies, surveys, conference proceedings, and commentary — the institute's published record, written to be used rather than shelved.
What We Publish
Long-form analysis with costed, sequenced recommendations for decision-makers.
Evidence-building studies, data collection, and academic-standard enquiry.
Regular horizon-scanning on the shifts shaping the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.
Public-opinion and stakeholder research on foreign policy and national questions.
Proceedings, outcomes, and agreed next steps from convenings the institute hosts or joins.
Argument and commentary from the institute's researchers and fellows.
Institutions outlive individuals, and Somaliland's international case has for too long depended on a small number of exceptional people. This commentary argues that a standing training pipeline — modest, practical, and started immediately — would compound in value regardless of how long the recognition question takes to resolve.
Recognition is rarely granted as a single verdict; it accumulates through functional agreements, commercial stakes, and first movers acting on concrete interests. This paper sets out a five-stage ladder — presence, function, economics, politics, precedent — and applies it to twelve priority capitals, with indicative sequencing, resource requirements, and measures of progress at each stage.
The institute's semi-annual horizon scan of the political, security, and commercial shifts most likely to affect Somaliland's interests. This edition examines naval deployment patterns in the Gulf of Aden, competing corridor projects, shifting Gulf-state priorities, and the domestic political calendars across the Horn that will shape the coming period.
Infrastructure alone does not create trade hubs — regulatory predictability does. This study benchmarks the Berbera corridor against comparator routes in the Red Sea and western Indian Ocean across customs processing, transit documentation, insurance availability, and border dwell times, and identifies where the corridor's competitiveness is won or lost.
A stakeholder survey of Somalilander diaspora communities across six host countries, examining willingness to advocate, current levels of organization, access to reliable information about the national case, and the practical barriers that stop goodwill from becoming coordinated action.
Democratic oversight and operational capability are frequently framed as a trade-off. Drawing on comparative practice from small states with limited defence budgets, this paper argues they are mutually reinforcing, and proposes an oversight architecture appropriate to Somaliland's institutions, budget, and threat environment.
A structured documentation of the conferences and local settlements that ended Somaliland's civil conflict — convening authority, financing, participation, sequencing, and enforcement — assembled from primary accounts and participant interviews, and assessed against the international peacebuilding literature.
Proceedings from the institute's convening of officials, researchers, diaspora representatives, and international participants in Hargeisa, covering the recognition strategy, Red Sea positioning, and diplomatic capacity-building, with the agreed follow-up actions arising from each session.
A practical framework for organizing diaspora advocacy: the briefing infrastructure, city-level structures, professional chapters, and youth pipeline required to convert widespread goodwill into consistent, credible engagement with host-country institutions.
A national survey of public attitudes toward recognition strategy, regional relationships, foreign investment, and the trade-offs citizens are and are not willing to accept in pursuit of international standing.
MAAN produces studies and briefings for institutions working on the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.
