1st Edition
State Crises, Globalisation and National Movements in North-East Africa The Horn's Dilemma
Edited By Asafa Jalata
Copyright 2004
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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By identifying the critical central contradictions that are built into the politics of the Horn of Africa, this book demonstrates that the crises of the Horn states stem from their political behaviour and structural forces, such as internal social forces, and global forces that have become involved on the sides of these states without requiring accountability, the rule of law, or the... Read more
Chapter 1 The Process of State Formation in the Horn of Africa in Comparative Perspective, Asafa Jalata; Chapter 2 The Racialised and Islamicised Sudanese State and the Question of Southern Sudan, Amir Idris; Chapter 3 Global Capitalism and the Oromo Liberation Struggle, William I Robinson; Chapter 4 Two National Liberation Movements Compared, Asafa Jalata; Chapter 5 The Oromo Gada System of Government, Lemmu Baissa; Chapter 6 Contending Democracies, Bonnie K Holcomb; Chapter 7, Seyoum Yunkura Hameso; Chapter 8 Globalisation and Africa, Alice Bettis Hashim; Chapter 9 What Next in the Horn of Africa?, Leenco Lata;
Biography
Asafa Jalata is Associate Professor of Sociology, global studies, and African and African American Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Oromia & Ethiopia (1993) and Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements (2001), and the editor of Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom & Democracy (1998).
