Cold War Fallout: Boundary Politics and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
- ISBN-10
- 1874209839
- ISBN-13
- 9781874209836
- Pages
- 175
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- HAAN
- Author
- Cabdisalaam M. Ciisa-Salwe
Description
This study explores the role of international politics in the life of a region where on the one hand a nation is trying to gather its people into a state (Somalia), and on the other are neighboring states (Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti) constructed on Western notions of statehood and wedded to colonial-defined borders. The positions were intractable. The Horn became an arena for Cold War ideological-global competition, and the conflict one of the longest running disputes on the African continent.
