"Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, remains a military powerhouse of that continent until our days. Nowadays involved in the war in neighbouring Somalia, Ethiopia was also involved in half a dozen of other armed conflicts over the last 60 years. Crucial be…
"Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, remains a military powerhouse of that continent until our days. Nowadays involved in the war in neighbouring Somalia, Ethiopia was also involved in half a dozen of other armed conflicts over the last 60 years. Crucial be…
"Currently involved in the war in neighbouring Somalia, Ethiopia was also involved in half a dozen ... other armed conflicts during the last 60 years. One of the most significant was trhe Eritrean War of Independence. Fought 1961-1991, this was one of the biggest armed conflicts…
In the mid-1970s, the Cold War had frozen into a nuclear stalemate in Europe and retreated from the headlines in Asia. As Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter fought for the presidency in late 1976, the superpower struggle overseas seemed to take a backseat to more contentious domestic …
In the mid-1970s, the Cold War had frozen into a nuclear stalemate in Europe and retreated from the headlines in Asia. As Geral Ford and Jimmy Carter fought for the presidency in late 1976, the superpower struggle overseas seemed to take a backseat to more contentious domestic i…
Most of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa achieved their independence after protracted liberation struggles. What explains the variances in their ultimate political development? Why, for example, did some post-conflict states evolve into democracies, while many others failed t…
Traditional theories of property rights change have posited an evolutionary progression of property rights towards private property in response to changes in the relative price ratio of land compared to the other factors of production. Using case studies from two areas of Ethiop…
Woldeab Woldemariam (1905–1995) was one of the most revered Eritrean nationalists. After receiving a Swedish missionary education and teaching grade school in the 1930s, he became a prolific journalist throughout the 1940s and early 1950s under the British Military Administratio…
This study aimed at examining media performance at a time when U.S. policymakers are uncertain as to what position to take in a foreign conflict situation that affects the national interest. The study departed from the argument by some mass communication scholars that Herman and…
Since the late 1960s, Eritreans in the United States have been active participants in ongoing efforts to define the Eritrean nation. They have also contributed extensively to the political-economic viability of the emergent state. During the nationalist revolution war of indepen…
This study explores the phenomenon of de facto statehood in contemporary international relations. In essence, the de facto state is almost the inverse of what Robert Jackson has termed the "quasi-state." The quasi-state has a flag, a capital city, an ambassador, and a seat at th…
In a system of multi-ethnic states, one of the gravest threats to international order is secession. If groups within already established states have the right to self-determination, then virtually every state in the system faces the risk of dismemberment. Since 1945, scores of s…
The Ethio-Eritrean conflict which lasted for three decades, 1961–1991, is a prototype of modern warfare that ravages the livelihood of rural communities. In these communities, the household is an economic and social unit. The ecological environment is their capital—source for fo…
This dissertation is a discursive inquiry into the language Horn of Africa (HOA) youth use as they talk about their experiences. Study participants are 1.5 and second generation HOA youth, mainly from Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, living in the Pacific Northwest and actively p…
The course of the Eritrean 2% Diaspora Tax's development and implementation illustrates how the revenue apparatus reflects, and enables, the inadequate governance existing in present-day Eritrea. This thesis will reveal how the 2% Tax came to underwrite a parochial policy of abs…
This dissertation examines the making of a complex Red Sea urban coastal society in Massawa (in present day Eritrea) in the second half of the nineteenth century. As a centuries-old port town Massawa's traditional role and raison d'être has been to mediate between multiple comme…