Somalia: A Rejoinder - Strategic Calculus, Not Capitulation: in Response to Alarmist Arguments On Turkey-Somalia Hydrocarbons Agreement

Somalia: A Rejoinder - Strategic Calculus, Not Capitulation: in Response to Alarmist Arguments On Turkey-Somalia Hydrocarbons Agreement

A recent opinion piece in Addis Standard, "Fueling fragility: Turkey's Somalia oil deal could risk new crisis in the Horn," written by Adam Daud Ahmed, casts a predictably skeptical eye upon the hydrocarbon's agreement forged between Somalia and Turkey. While prudent consideration of resource management and regional stability is undoubtedly warranted, Adam's analysis succumbs to an overly simplistic narrative of exploitation and impending crisis…