s Since the mid-2000s, state-building in Somaliland has emerged as a complex mixture of coexisting, competing programs, political aspirations, and foreign agendas. This article applies a dialectical approach to focus on the scalar relations among actors and models of capacity-building, from programs’ design to their implementation. Drawing on science and technology studies, I use the term “complexities” to describe the “multiplicities” of programs, actors, and different ways of ordering that coexist and overlap, sometimes in tension among them, other times in coordination. Specifically, this article examines two approaches to state-building in Somaliland: the United Nations Development Program’s institution-building and US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded stabilization programs. Going beyond fixed binaries, such as international and local, homogenous and hybrid, state-building and state-formation, this article observes how these dichotomies are formed and how, rather than being separate, they combine together, generating techno-political arrangements. Somaliland’s complexity is made up of techno-political arrangements that are coproduced by both technical expertise and national political aspirations. Technical capacity-building programs, such as the redesign of the Somalia Institutional Development Project (SIDP), the creation of Somaliland’s National Development Plan (NDP), and the allocation of USAID’s grants, have become the terrain for political claims over the redistribution of resources and the control of state institutions.

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索马里兰国家建设的复杂性

自 2000 年代中期以来，索马里兰的国家建设已成为一个共存、相互竞争的计划、政治愿望和外国议程的复杂混合体。本文采用辩证的方法，重点关注从项目设计到实施的能力建设参与者和模型之间的标量关系。借鉴科学和技术研究，我使用“复杂性”一词来描述程序、参与者以及不同的排序方式的“多样性”，它们共存和重叠，有时相互紧张，有时相互协调。具体而言，本文探讨了索马里兰国家建设的两种方法：联合国开发计划署的机构建设和美国国际开发署 (USAID) 资助的稳定计划。本文超越了国际和地方、同质和混合、国家建设和国家形成等固定的二元对立，观察了这些二分法是如何形成的，以及它们如何而不是分开，而是如何结合在一起，产生技术政治安排。索马里兰的复杂性是由技术专业知识和国家政治愿望共同产生的技术政治安排组成的。技术能力建设计划，例如索马里机构发展项目（SIDP）的重新设计、索马里兰国家发展计划（NDP）的制定以及美国国际开发署赠款的分配，已成为资源重新分配的政治主张的领域以及国家机构的控制。