Cold War Fallout Boundary Politics and Conflict in the Horn of Africa |
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| Author:
| Cabdisalaam M. Ciisa-Salwe,
Issa-Salwe, Abdisalam M. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-874209-83-6 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2000 |
| Publisher: | Transaction Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $46.95 |
Book Description:
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This study explores the role of international politics in the life of a region where on the one hand a nation is trying to gather its people into a state (Somalia), and on the other are neighboring states (Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti) constructed on Western notions of statehood and wedded to colonial-defined borders. The positions were intractable. The Horn became an arena for Cold War ideological-global competition, and the conflict one of the longest running disputes on the African...
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This study explores the role of international politics in the life of a region where on the one hand a nation is trying to gather its people into a state (Somalia), and on the other are neighboring states (Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti) constructed on Western notions of statehood and wedded to colonial-defined borders. The positions were intractable. The Horn became an arena for Cold War ideological-global competition, and the conflict one of the longest running disputes on the African continent.