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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction: An African Anomaly
Introduction
The Highland Core
The Lowland Periphery
The Highland Periphery
The Population Dynamics of the Horn
Structures of Partition
Empire, Revolution and State Failure in Ethiopia and Eritrea
The Death of the Somali Dream
1991: Year Zero in the Horn
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
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?
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
Circa l’autore
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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