Despite the vast amount of research on self-determination, there are pertinent questions that remain unanswered. Of the questions surrounding self-determination, the most intriguing and perhaps important, is what determines the status of a peoples vying for self-determination. A…
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The decade of the 1970s, despite representing the era of detente, superficially appeared to be one of Soviet successes and American setbacks. From Vietnam to Angola, the USSR seemed to be gaining Marxist friends in the Third World. Because of this, the Soviet Union wanted the Un…
When European powers lost their hold over their empires, most colonies gained independence. This was not the case for Italy's Eritrea and Portugal's Timor, however. Both became subject to secondary colonialisms when Ethiopia annexed Eritrea, and Indonesia invaded and occupied Ea…
This dissertation reports the results of archaeological survey and excavations on the Buri Peninsula and Gulf of Zula, Red Sea coast of Eritrea. Its primary goals were to seek evidence for prehistoric human settlement, and to define the geological, chronological and cultural con…
Tigre is spoken by between 10 and 20 percent of the approximately 3.8 million inhabitants of Eritrea (East Africa). While there are a dozen Tigre-speaking groups, only one dialect, that of the Mensa' ethnic group, has been recorded grammatically, lexically, and textually. The re…
This dissertation reports and interprets findings from an intensive archaeological survey and test excavation project in a 145 square kilometer area in the highland plateau region surrounding Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea. The archaeology of this region, known previously f…
When Eritrean refugees began to return to their country from Sudan at independence in the early 1990s, they came to inhabit places that had been imagined from afar for as many as 30 years--for the younger generation, their entire lives. However, returnees shared a history of col…
What kinds of power-resources do third party interveners employ to influence adversarial parties' behavior in the course of mediation? What factors and circumstances shape the effective use of such resources? This study attempts to answer these and allied questions by examining …
"African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to Afr…
"Since 2005, approximately 70,000 asylum-seeking refugees from Sudan and Eritrea have entered Israel. This, along with the highly publicised anti-African immigrant riots in Israel in 2012 and 2014 and the current global refugee crisis, has meant that the issue of African migrati…
Between 1986 and 1994, East Africa's postcolonial, political settlement was profoundly challenged as four revolutionary 'liberation' movements seized power in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda. After years of armed struggle against vicious dictatorships, these movements trans…
