The Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of contemporary research related to the Horn of Africa.
Situated at the junction of the Sahel-Saharan strip and the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa is growing in global importance due to demographic growth and the strategic importance of the Suez Canal. Divided into sections on authoritarianism and resistance, religion and politics, migration, economic integration, the military, and regimes and liberation, the contributors provide up-to-date, authoritative knowledge on the region in light of contemporary strategic concerns. The handbook investigates how political, economic, and security innovations have been implemented, sometimes with violence, by use of force or by negotiation – including ‘ethnic federalism’ in Ethiopia, independence in Eritrea and South Sudan, integration of the traditional authorities in the (neo)patrimonial administrations, Somalian Islamic Courts, the Sudanese Islamist regime, people’s movements, multilateral operations, and the construction of an architecture for regional peace and security.
Accessibly written, this handbook is an essential read for scholars, students, and policy professionals interested in the contemporary politics in the Horn of Africa.
- General Introduction
- Understanding the Oromo Movements: From the Macha Tulama Association to the "Oromo Protests"
- The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the Dilemma of Liberation
- Eritrea: Self-Reliance, Militarization, and Diaspora
- The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army: Between Separation and Unity
- South Sudan after Secession: The Failure as a New State and the Outbreak of War Since 2013
- Sudan’s Challenge in Remaining a Cohesive Nation and State: The Enactment of Violent and Authoritarian Modalities of Governance
- Somalia: In Search of National Unity
- The Somali National Movement: Engineering Self-Determination of Somaliland
- Somaliland’s Struggle for Recognition since 1991: External Actors and Dynamics
- African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA): If You Want "to Silence the Guns" by 2063, First Kill the "White Elephant"
- The Military Equation in the Horn of Africa
- The Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula: The Interplay Between Domestic, Regional and Global Dynamics in the Rapprochement Between Ethiopia and Eritrea
- Turkey’s Soft Power Experiments and Dilemmas in Somalia
- Ugandan Interference in South Sudan
- South Sudan: War, Peace Processes and Regional Economic Integration
- Military Livelihoods and the Political Economy in South Sudan
- Embedded Uniforms in Sudan: The War in Darfur, Militias, Paramilitaries, and the Rise of Rapid Support Forces Hassan Elhag Ali Ahmed
- The Ethiopian National Defense Forces since 1991
- Recruitment Strategies for Al-Shabaab in Kenya
- ‘What is Happening Now is not Raiding, it’s War’: The Growing Politicisation and Militarisation of Cattle-Raiding among the Western Nuer and Murle During South Sudan’s Civil Wars
- The War in Tigray (2020-2021): Dictated Truths, Irredentism, and déjà-vu
- Ruling over Diversity: Federalism and Devolution in Ethiopia and Kenya
- State Power and Citizen Agency: Reframing the Power Narrative in State-Society Relations in Ethiopia
- Being a de facto State is not Enough: Somaliland’s Innovative Regime
- The Politics of State-Building: Regime Restructuring in Mogadishu
- The Looming Spectre: A History of the ‘State of Emergency’ in Ethiopia, 1970s-2021
- Thirty Years of Autocratic Rule: Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki Between Innovation and Destruction
- Authoritarian Adaptation and Innovative Contestation in Sudan, 2009-2019
- Hegemonic Elections: Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti
- Serving the Regime: The State Police and Kenya’s Electoral Authoritarianism
- Women, Clan and Politics in Somalia
- Sudan: the December 2018 Revolution and its Aftermath
- The Sudanese ‘Transition’ Seen From its Peripheries, 2018-2020
- Political Islam in Somalia: From Underground Movements to the Rise and Continued Resilience of Al Shabaab Markus Virgil Hoehne and Mohamed Husein Gaas
- Islam, Politics, and Violence on the Kenya Coast
- The ‘Islamic movement’ in Sudan: From the NIF to the December Revolution
- Islamic Law, Legal Hybridity and Legal Practices in Sudan
- ‘For God and my Country’: Religious Lobby Groups in Uganda and their Role in Policy Making
- The Civil Rights Movement of Ethiopian Muslims in 2012: Historical Grounds and Driving Forces
- The strains of ‘Pente’ Politics: Evangelicals and the Post-Orthodox State in Ethiopia
- Architectural Innovation of Ethiopian Orthodox Church
- Singing in Praise of Jesus in an ‘Islamic State’: The challenges faced by Habash Pentecostalist Migrants in Sudan Netsereab G. Andom
- Producing Migrants as Entrepreneurs in Sudan: Reconfigurations of Development in an Era of Migration ‘Crisis’
- Domestic Labour and Immigration into the Republic of Djibouti by Young Ethiopians and Somalis
- Migration within the Horn of Africa: New Trends
- Migration, Asylum and International Interventions
- Girls on the Move: Changing Dynamics of Migration in the Horn of Africa
- Migration is a Personal Journey: Stories of Ethiopian and Eritrean Migrants as they Forge Their Individual and Collective Journeys and Existence in and out of the Region
- Multi-Directional Movement and the Management of Mobility Between Ethiopian and Eritrean (1993-2020)
- Sedentarization of Cross-Border Tribes and Mixed Migration Movements: Beni Amir in Eastern Sudan
- Ethiopian Diaspora and Its Impact on Politics in Ethiopia
- Qof Ma Dhiban: Somali Orality and the Delineation of Power
- Geopolitical Challenges for the Development of Hydroelectricity in the Nile Basin
- Water, Land and Arab Investments in Irrigation Projects: Continuity and Innovation in Sudan
- Demystifying the National Interest: The Case of Building Dams and Dismantling the Sudanese State
- China and the African Union: Infrastructure and Trade Deficits in Strategic Transport Links in the Horn of Africa Benedikt Kamski and Nizar Manek
- China’s Information Infrastructures in the Horn: A Laboratory for Experimentation?
- Oil and Gas in East Africa: Hope and Illusion
- Inconspicuous Economic Integration by Small Transnational Entrepreneurs in Uganda and South-Sudan
Jean-Nicolas Bach
Part 1: Liberation Movements, Separatism, and States Formations
Part 1 Introduction
Aleksi Ylönen and Jean-Nicolas Bach
Jan Záhořík
Aleksi Ylönen
Tanja R. Müller
Samson Samuel Wassara
Leben Nelson Moro
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz and Jean-Nicolas Bach
Abdurahman Abdullahi Baadiyow
Fatuma Ahmed Ali
Nasir M. Ali and Aleksi Ylönen
Part 2: Armed People, Conflicts and International Interventions
Part 2 Introduction
Patrick Ferras and Jean-Nicolas Bach
Patrick Klaousen
Patrick Ferras
Alexandra M. Dias
Jędrzej Czerep
Julie Saché
Cedric Barnes
Nicki Kindersley
Patrick Ferras
Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen
Diana Felix da Costa, Naomi Pendle and Jérôme Tubiana
Mehdi Labzaé
Part 3: Authoritarianism, Innovative Regimes, and Forms of Resistances
Part 3 Introduction
Jon Abbink
Chloé Josse-Durand and Alexander Meckelburg
Hone Mandefro and Logan Cochrane
Markus Virgil Hoehne
Faduma Abukar Mursal
Jon Abbink
Nicole Hirt
Clément Deshayes
Jean-Nicolas Bach and Aden Omar Abdillahi
Kamau Wairuri
Istar Ahmed and Anisa Hagimumin
Jean-Nicolas Bach
Jérôme Tubiana
Part 4: Religion and Religious Movements: Strategies and Adaptation to New Landscape
Part 4 Introduction
Stéphane Ancel and Hassan Mwakimako
Hassan Mwakimako and Justin Willis
Azza Mustafa M. Ahmed
Barbara Casciarri
Anna Fichtmüller
Eloi Ficquet
Jörg Haustein and Dereje Feyissa
Stéphane Ancel
Part 5. People’s Movements: Migration
Part 5 Introduction
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz and Jan Záhořík
Hengameh Ziai
Amina Said Chiré, Bezunesh Tamru, and Omar Mahamoud Ismael
Alice Corbet and Jan Záhořík
Thibaut Jaulin and Hélène Thiollet
Katarzyna Grabska and Marina de Regt
Rania Rajji
Amanda Poole and Jennifer Riggan
Michaela Stahl-Göken
Jan Záhořík and Ameyu Godesso
Hawa Y. Mire
Part 6. Connecting the Horn: Infrastructures, Investments and Networks
Part 6 Intro
Emanuele Fantini and Clélie Nallet
Wahel Rashid
Marina Bertoncin, Andrea Pase, Stefano Turrini
Tamer Abd Elkreem
Iginio Gagliardone
Patricia I. Vasquez
Bernard Calas, Sylvain Racaud, and Charlotte Torretti
Biography
Jean-Nicolas Bach holds a PhD in Political Science and is affiliated at Sciences Po Bordeaux, Les Afriques dans le Monde, France.
with Jon Abbink, Stéphane Ancel, Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Emanuele Fantini, Patrick Ferras, Hassan Mwakimako, Clélie Nallet, Aleksi Ylönen, and Jan Záhořík.