ISBN:
9780197548035
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 224 Seiten)
,
Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Clapham, Christopher S., 1941 - The Horn of Africa
DDC:
963.07
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Politics and government
;
Africa
;
Ethiopia
;
Horn of Africa
;
History
;
Since 1900
;
Somalihalbinsel
;
Bürgerkrieg
;
Politik
Abstract:
What distinguishes the Horn of Africa from the rest of the continent and explains its political fragility? This is the book to read.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Indigenous Words -- Maps -- Introduction: An African Anomaly -- 1. The Power of Landscape -- Introduction -- The Highland Core -- The Lowland Periphery -- The Highland Periphery -- The Population Dynamics of the Horn -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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? -- 5. 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-212
