Horn of Africa since the 1960s

Aleksi Ylönen is a Research Fellow, Center for International Studies, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal.Jan Záhořík is Associate Professor at the Centre for African Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

• 1. Introduction2. Turbulent Political Developments in the Horn of Africa in the Cold War: The central role of Ethiopia, 1960s to 1980s 3. States Breaking and Dominoes Falling? Considerations of Separatism and International Recognition in the Horn of Africa 4. External Factors and Their Impact on Internal Political Dynamics in Ethiopia5. State making, transnational clientelism and political communities in the Horn of Africa6. Ethiopia and China: Changing Relations7. Eritrea: A Sub-Regional Menace? 8. Somali Independence and its political connections with Nasser’s Egypt9. When the outside is inside: International features of the Somali "civil" war10. Crisis of Statehood in Somalia11. Any Prospects for Future Peace? Politics and War Surrounding the Sudan-South Sudan Conundrum12. Affirmation or Erosion of Sovereignty in the Horn of Africa? The Case of De Facto State Somaliland13. A hybrid actor in the Horn of Africa: An analysis of Turkey’s involvement in Somalia14. South Sudan’s Oil and International Engagement15. Islamization, Arabization and the Break-Up of the Sudan

"The Horn of Africa since the 1960s is an example of a thoroughly successful attempt to present the contemporary situation in the region based on solid historical analyses. The authors make an effort to put the discussed problems in the longue durée perspective, even though the title of the book suggests that the time perspective is restricted to the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century."Hanna Rubinkowska-Aniol, Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures