The Conduct of an Inter-state War and Multiple Dimensions of Territory: 1998-2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia war

Dias, Alexandra Magnólia

doi:10.4000/cea.384

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“…For both sides, Ethiopia and Eritrea, the question of territory was infused with a lot of symbolic meaning and historical myth making. For the Ethiopian side, this included referring back to the battle of Adwa and a quest to unite against any threat to Ethiopian territorial integrity, whereas for Eritrea, as outlined above, the claim to sui generis statehood was a core foundation of Eritrean nationalism and the claim for an independent state (Dias 2012a).…”

Section: Defending the Territorial Nation State Against Incursions No Matter Where The Actual Border Marker Sitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonial borders and hybrid identities: Lessons from the case of Eritrea

Müller

2020

Borderlands Journal

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Colonialism left numerous borders in its wake that subsequently became contested. These colonial borders have often been discussed as artificial, dividing communities, people or ethnicities that otherwise would belong together. Such an interpretation of colonial borders, I argue in this article, overlooks another important aspect of colonial boundaries: their role in creating nations as ‘imagined communities’ who in making reference to such borders can lay claim to a distinct national identity. While such an identity can be exclusionary and trigger conflict, it can also have a much more positive and ultimately hybrid function. I use the case of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa to demonstrate these multiple roles colonial boundaries can occupy and focus specifically on the creation and contestations of the borders of Eritrea. I argue that the acceptance of borders as markers of identity can be a prerequisite for finding innovative ways to overcome exclusions in the everyday lives of borderland groups. Thus, the example of Eritrea could hold wider lessons for addressing postcolonial disputes about borders and boundaries, if institutional arrangements are put in place that allow fluidity in everyday encounters.

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Section: Defending the Territorial Nation State Against Incursions No Matter Where The Actual Border Marker Sitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonial borders and hybrid identities: Lessons from the case of Eritrea

Müller

2020

Borderlands Journal

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“…In addition, as analysed expertly by Dias (2012) Yemen and beyond (Müller, 2018a). But a focus mainly on economic aspects, in line with a more general analysis of political dynamcis in the Horn as a 'political marketplace' where politicians, military leaders and insurgents bargain over money and power to achieve their objectives via rent-maximisation (De Waal 2015), fails to understand the ideological underpinnings of state-making in the Horn, that the case of Eritrea and its foreign policy since independence brings particularly to the fore (for a broader discussion of this framing see Müller 2016).…”

Section: Defending the Territorial Nation State Against All Incursionsmentioning

confidence: 99%