The Possibility of Trade-Based Cooperation among Horn Countries that Advances Political Stability and Prosperity

This review paper tries to explore, notwithstanding integral incongruities and contradictions, an alternative to conflict rules-based trade cooperation between horn countries. In order to secure reciprocal advantages and shared prosperity, it also recognizes the importance of building and upholding frameworks for international relations, the liberal international order (LIO), often referred to as the rules-based International order (RBIO), for the aforementioned rights of land-locked states and safeguarding the transit states sovereignty. Furthermore, facing a cooperation that genuinely adheres to international order in which both sides of the divide are bound by it, thus, reinforces that order to preserve the conditions needed for mutual peace and prosperity. On that note, the recent political discourse triggered by the land-locked Ethiopian endeavour to access the shores of Somalia to be RBIO which both sides abide by, just as land-locked African countries access the ports of littoral inhabitant ones, proceeds both sides’ interests rather than a one based on hegemonic or exploitative ambitions. Penultimately, understanding and advancing a mutual benefit, adhering to the rules-based trade cooperation between both sides, puts the foundations of an ecosystem that binds together individual nation-states to another, as what happens in one country can have a significant and unanticipated antagonistic impact in the realms of economy and security. Finally, International laws, regulations, and standards, along with the institutions that regulate them, are what gave rise to the United Nations and its charter, which member states ratified to express their desire to join the global community. As a result, all of the Horn countries' members are required to abide by the core values and clauses found in that charter