State Crises, Globalisation and National Movements in
Subtitle: the Horn's Dilemma
Contributors: Jalata, Asafa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780203006269
Subjects: The State
Description: This book demonstrates that the crises of the Horn states stem from their political behaviour and structural forces.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; The process of state formation in the Horn of Africa in comparative perspective; The racialised and Islamicised Sudanese State and the question of Southern Sudan; Global capitalism and the Oromo liberation struggle: theoretical notes on US policy towards the Ethiopian empire; Two national liberation movements compared: Oromia and Southern Sudan; The Oromo Gada system of government: an indigenous African democracy; Contending democracies: US-sponsored 'democracy' encounters indigenous Oromo democratic forms.; title: The Sidama nation and the solidarity of colonised nations in EthiopiaGlobalisation and Africa: reconstructing the failed Somali state and reviving national identity; What next in the Horn of Africa? Reconsidering the state and self-determination; Select bibliography; Index.