{"id":7978,"date":"2024-04-03T15:49:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:51:10","slug":"djiboutian-sovereignty-worlding-global-security-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7978","title":{"rendered":"Djiboutian Sovereignty: Worlding Global Security Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7978\" class=\"elementor elementor-7978\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-697fd99 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"697fd99\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4b24654\" data-id=\"4b24654\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd4007e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dd4007e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Authors<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/research-portal.uea.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/elizabeth-cobbett\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabeth Cobbett<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &amp; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/research-portal.uea.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/ra-mason\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ra Mason<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Affiliation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uea.ac.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of East Anglia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Norwich, UK)<\/span><\/p><p><b>Organization\/Publisher<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">International Affairs, Oxford University Press<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><b>Date\/Place:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> November 1, 2021\/UK<\/span><\/p><p><b>Type of Literature:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Academic Journal article<\/span><\/p><p><b>Number of Pages:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 17\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Link<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ia\/article-abstract\/97\/6\/1767\/6412442?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ia\/article-abstract\/97\/6\/1767\/6412442?redirectedFrom=fulltext<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><b><i>Keywords: <\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">African Geopolitics, East Africa, Global Security, Sovereignty, Djibouti<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><b>Brief:<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although most view Djibouti<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">s leasing of land to foreign military powers as a compromise of its sovereignty, the authors argue that instead we should view it as a small state practicing the art of being global. Djibouti hosts the first overseas bases of two Asian countries: Japan and China. The country hosts approximately 2000 Chinese servicemen. Contrary to popular beliefs, Djibouti is not a failed or fragile state. Rather, the small African country can exercise considerable agency in terms of how it engages with great powers. As a hub for security networks it has the ability to play great powers off of one another. Djibouti stands as a paradigmatic case for a new type of sovereignty that is emerging: multilayered, topologies that fold and stretch. In Japan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">s case it obtains rights in Djibouti that it concedes at home in the face of US military presence. New global centers for security allow states to stretch their reach and expand their territoriality. What a close study on this particular node in the global security architecture shows is that while in the UN sovereignty is seen as a fixed principled doctrine, on the ground, sovereignty in practice is subject to local possibilities and capabilities limited only by how agency can be managed in different contexts. So this means that while Djibouti is a sovereign state with full control over its borders, it simultaneously sells its sovereignty to increase foreign investment and development. The authors argue that Djibouti is a primary case of how African states can strategically instrumentalize their relationships with external powers and use their agency to gain from changing dynamics in the world.<\/span><\/p><p><b>By: Uveys Han, CIGA Senior Research Associate<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Elizabeth Cobbett &amp; Ra Mason\u00a0 Affiliation: University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) Organization\/Publisher: International Affairs, Oxford University Press Date\/Place: November 1, 2021\/UK Type of Literature: Academic Journal article Number of Pages: 17\u00a0 Link:https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ia\/article-abstract\/97\/6\/1767\/6412442?redirectedFrom=fulltext Keywords: African Geopolitics, East Africa, Global Security, Sovereignty, Djibouti Brief: Although most view Djibouti\u2019s leasing of land to foreign military powers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-nile-valley-north-africa"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Djiboutian-Sovereignty-Worlding-Global-Security-Networks-scaled.jpg",2560,1584,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Djiboutian-Sovereignty-Worlding-Global-Security-Networks-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Djiboutian-Sovereignty-Worlding-Global-Security-Networks-300x186.jpg",300,186,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Djiboutian-Sovereignty-Worlding-Global-Security-Networks-768x475.jpg",768,475,true],"large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Djiboutian-Sovereignty-Worlding-Global-Security-Networks-1024x634.jpg",1024,634,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Djiboutian-Sovereignty-Worlding-Global-Security-Networks-1536x951.jpg",1536,951,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Djiboutian-Sovereignty-Worlding-Global-Security-Networks-2048x1268.jpg",2048,1268,true]},"author_info":{"info":["CIGA Staff"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?cat=33\" rel=\"category\">Nile Valley &amp; 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