Chapter 7 concludes that interventions in Somalia played a destabilising role, feeding existing conflicts over authority and control. They shaped the course of conflicts and reconciliation, complicating existing claims for power and authority. In their partisan capacity of empowering some actors versus others, interventions added layers of complexity to the conflict itself, reiterating its international dimension, while inducing at the same time a fragmentation and outsourcing of sovereignty functions. What emerges from the comparative analysis of the three interventions in Somalia is that it was not a problem of implementation or unintended consequences, as these interventions were diverse in nature and differently implemented. What the three interventions have in common is an expansionist logic of filling the state-capacity gap; logic which is a vehicle of neocolonial relationships of dependency, inherently subject to internal incoherencies and self-determination restrictions.