International actors assumed Somalis needed a centralized regime and feared their refugee flows.

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

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the Western state-centric assumption Lewis has repeatedly argued against — a core thesis payoff that could anchor an essay. — connects to: European refugee politics motivated international pressure for Somali state formation.; European refugee pressures drove international support for a Somali centralized government; Somalis and international forces held mutually incompatible expectations of the intervention (+1 more)

Related

• European refugee pressures drove international support for a Somali centralized government (similarity 0.95)
• European refugee politics motivated international pressure for Somali state formation. (similarity 0.91)
• Somalis and international forces held mutually incompatible expectations of the intervention (similarity 0.87)
• Somalis distrusted the UN Secretary-General as pursuing Egyptian regional interests (similarity 0.84)
• External states like Ethiopia drive most pressure to restore Somali government. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Somalis and international forces held mutually incompatible expectations of the intervention #expands (0.70)
• Somalis distrusted the UN Secretary-General as pursuing Egyptian regional interests #exemplifies (0.35) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 903