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| Title: | Horn of Africa as Common Homeland
: The State & Self-determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization |
| Author: | Leenco Lata |
| ISBN: | 088920456X : 9780889204560 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 220 |
| Weight: | .384 Kg. |
| Published: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press - September 2004 |
| List Price: | 19.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Conflict resolution: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT: AFRICA |
A significant analysis of the complicated and conflicting goals of the countries located in the Horn of Africa. Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among these elements created more problems than they solved. Leenco Lata demonstrates that conflicts within and between states tend to connect seamlessly in the region. When these conflicts are seen in the context of pressures on the state in an era of heightened globalisation, it becomes obvious that the Horn needs to adopt multi-dimensional self-determination. Leenco Lata discusses the history of conflicts within and between Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and the Sudan, and investigates local and global contributory factors. He assesses the effectiveness of the nation-state model to forge a positive relationship between these governments and the people. Part 1 summarises the history of self-determination and the state from the French Revolution to the post-Cold War period. Part 2 shows how the states of the Horn of Africa emerged in a highly interactive way, and how these developments continue to reverberate throughout the region, underscoring the necessity of simultaneous regional integration and the decentralisation of power as an approach to conflict resolution. Motivated by a search for practical answers rather than a strict adherence to any particular theory, this significant work by a political activist provides a thorough analysis of the region's complicated and conflicting goals.
Self-Determination as Popular Sovereignty; Decolonisation in Africa: Aberrant Self-determination; Post-Cold War Trends in the Nature of the State; Emerging Trends in Self-Determination; Interactive State Formation in the Horn of Africa; The Uncertain and Interdependent Date of the Horn Entities; Nation-Building: Fitting States into National Moulds; Nation-Building in the Sudan; Unification and Nation-Building: Somalia's Sacred Mission; Imagining the Horn of Africa Common Homeland; Conclusion.
