European refugee pressures drove international support for a Somali centralized government
Evidence
Part of the support with which the U.N. and E.U. sought, against all the evidence, to encourage the transitional government must have reflected a conviction, taken as self-evident, that Somalis could not survive without a modern centralized regime. It would certainly be more convenient for international relations. In the case of E.U. and North American countries a more direct motive related to the delicate political problem of refugees that so engaged their leaders in the summer of 2002. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 712 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: European refugee politics motivated international pressure for Somali state formation.; External states like Ethiopia drive most pressure to restore Somali government.; International actors assumed Somalis needed a centralized regime and feared their refugee flows. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 712
Related
- International actors assumed Somalis needed a centralized regime and feared their refugee flows. (similarity 0.95)
- European refugee politics motivated international pressure for Somali state formation. (similarity 0.94)
- Somalis and international forces held mutually incompatible expectations of the intervention (similarity 0.84)
- External states like Ethiopia drive most pressure to restore Somali government. (similarity 0.81)
- Somalis distrusted the UN Secretary-General as pursuing Egyptian regional interests (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- International actors assumed Somalis needed a centralized regime and feared their refugee flows.
#corroborates(0.85) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 712