Tobias Hagmann is a senior program officer at swisspeace and a former associate professor at Roskilde University, studying politics and state-society relations in the Horn of Africa. Finn Stepputat is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, working on conflict, state sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies.

‘[The book] offers interesting perspectives on social infrastructure of trade, how commodity trading and marketplaces are governed, the movement of commodities across borders, the significance of ports on state formation, and the political economy of taxation.’

Tobias Hagmann is a senior program officer at swisspeace and a former associate professor at Roskilde University, studying politics and state-society relations in the Horn of Africa. Finn Stepputat is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, working on conflict, state sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies.

‘[The book] offers interesting perspectives on social infrastructure of trade, how commodity trading and marketplaces are governed, the movement of commodities across borders, the significance of ports on state formation, and the political economy of taxation.’

Tobias Hagmann is a senior program officer at swisspeace and a former associate professor at Roskilde University, studying politics and state-society relations in the Horn of Africa. Finn Stepputat is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, working on conflict, state sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies.

‘[The book] offers interesting perspectives on social infrastructure of trade, how commodity trading and marketplaces are governed, the movement of commodities across borders, the significance of ports on state formation, and the political economy of taxation.’