Eritrea's External Relations: Understanding Its Regional Role and Foreign Policy
Richard Reidis lecturer in the History of Africa in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He taught for several years at the University of Asmara in Eritrea and has also taught at Durham University. He is the author ofPolitical Power in Pre Colonial Buganda(Oxford, 2002) andWar in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa(Oxford, 2007). He was guest editor of a special volume of theJournal of Eastern African Studiesin 2007, dealing with identities in east and northeast Africa. He is also the author of several articles on modern Eritrea and Ethiopia, dealing particularly with the liberation struggle, the 1998—2000 war, and the current political situation.