ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|103 pages
Liberation movements, separatism, and state formation
chapter 2|10 pages
Understanding the Oromo movements
chapter 6|9 pages
South Sudan after secession
chapter 7|15 pages
Sudan's challenge in remaining a cohesive nation and state
part 2|140 pages
Armed people, conflicts, and international interventions
chapter 11|12 pages
African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA)
chapter 13|12 pages
The Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
chapter 18|15 pages
Embedded uniforms
chapter 21|14 pages
‘What is happening now is not raiding, it's war’
part 3|156 pages
Authoritarianism, innovative regimes, and forms of resistance
chapter 24|11 pages
State power and citizen agency
chapter 27|15 pages
The looming spectre
chapter 28|10 pages
Thirty years of autocratic rule
part 4|112 pages
Religion and religious movements – strategies and adaptation to new landscapes
chapter 35|17 pages
Political Islam in Somalia
chapter 39|10 pages
‘For God and my Country’
chapter 40|9 pages
The civil rights movement of Ethiopian Muslims in 2012
chapter 41|14 pages
The strains of ‘Pente’ politics
chapter 43|15 pages
Singing in praise of Jesus in an ‘Islamic State’
part 5|121 pages
People's movements
chapter 49|10 pages
Migration is a personal journey
part 6|85 pages
Connecting the Horn