Christopher Clapham 
The Horn of Africa [EPUB ebook] 
State Formation and Decay

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Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn’s contemporary nation-states, despite the striking regional particularity inherited from the colonial past.

Christopher Clapham explores how the Horn’s peculiar topography gave rise to the Ethiopian empire, the sole African state not only to survive European colonialism, but also to participate in a colonial enterprise of its own.  Its impact on its neighbours, present-day Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Somaliland, created a region very different from that of post-colonial Africa. This dynamic has become all the more distinct since 1991, when Eritrea and Somaliland emerged from the break-up of both Ethiopia and Somalia. 

Yet this evolution has produced highly varied outcomes in the region’s constituent countries, from state collapse (and deeply flawed reconstruction) in Somalia, through militarised isolation in Eritrea, to a still fragile ‘developmental state’ in Ethiopia. The tensions implicit in the process of state formation now drive the relationships between the once historically close nations of the Horn.

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Introduction: An African Anomaly


  • The Power of Landscape
  • Introduction

    The Highland Core

    The Lowland Periphery

    The Highland Periphery

    The Population Dynamics of the Horn


  • Histories of State Creation and Collapse
  • Structures of Partition

    Empire, Revolution and State Failure in Ethiopia and Eritrea

    The Death of the Somali Dream

    1991: Year Zero in the Horn


  • State Reconstruction in Ethiopia
  • A New Kind of Ethiopia?

    Creating a Managed Political Order

    The Impact of War

    Elections, Participation and the Crisis of 2005.

    Building a Developmental State

    Managing the Succession

    The Ethiopian Experiment


  • Eritrea: The Tragedy of the Post-Insurgent State
  • The Creation of an Eritrean State

    The 1998-2000 War and its Aftermath

    Post-War Eritrea: The Traumas of Regime Survival

    A New Kind of Eritrea?


  • Managing Somali States
  • Introduction: The Problems of Somali Governance

    South-Central Somalia: The Contradictions of External State-Building

    The Somaliland Option

    The Djibouti Anomaly

    6. The Horn, the Continent and the World

    Structures of Regional Hegemony and Contestation

    Continental and Global Agendas

    Sobre el autor

    Christopher Clapham is based at the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University, and recently retired as editor of The Journal of Modern African Studies. Until December 2002, he was Professor of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University. He is a specialist in the politics of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, and his books include Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia (1988),  Africa and the International System (1996), and African Guerrillas (1998).

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    Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 240 ● ISBN 9781805260721 ● Tamaño de archivo 1.7 MB ● Editorial Hurst Publishers ● Publicado 2023 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 8862614 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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