“We Didn’t Fight for This”: The Pitfalls of State- and Nation-Building in Eritrea

Dias, Alexandra Magnólia; Dorman, Sara Rich

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90206-7_14

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“…EPLF understood the necessity of developing a national identity that would crosscut the internal divisions. After becoming the dominant military group representing the entity, it not only pushed forward the ideas of Eritreans and state development but also aided the local population in establishing a tangible connection with the future population of the state (Dias & Dorman, 2019;Mahrt, 2009, p. 404). The idea of the connection between state and society is rooted in guerrilla history (Woldemikael, 2009), and the national identity of Eritreans is closely connected to the state's existence (Müller, 2019).…”

Section: Eritreamentioning

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Nomos, Hostis, and War: State-Building Process and Armed Forces in Africa

Doboš

Mičko

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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State-building process in Africa appears in different conditions to those experienced on other continents. It is primarily characterized by the presence of fixed borders. The article repurposes evolutionary and identitarian theories on the development of political communities for the African realities. It highlights the necessity to develop policies creating territorial division between the population of the state and the external environment and utilizing armed forces for the protection of the state against such an environment for the state-building process to succeed. In cases of Eritrea, Senegal, and Burkina Faso, three hypotheses are being tested with an outcome that state-building process connected to the creation of Nomos does not have to be violent but requires a connection of the armed forces to the society. Once the division between the Nomos and the hostis develops inside of the state, such entities are not able to develop power projection capabilities inside their borders.

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Section: Eritreamentioning

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Nomos, Hostis, and War: State-Building Process and Armed Forces in Africa

Doboš

Mičko

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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“…Minorities may also see decentralization as an inadequate substitute for an independent country. They may also worry that centralizing elites may reverse it at the first opportunity without their consent, as occurred in both Anglophone West Cameroon eleven years after independence and in Eritrea ten years following its absorption into Ethiopia (Konings and Nyamnjoh 2019;Dias and Dorman 2019). Regional governments may also lack influence over critical decisions, including resources allocations, made at the center (Lyon 2012).…”

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Inclusion by Design: Measuring Minority Inclusion Comparatively to Assess Institutions for Divided Societies

Lublin

2020

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I propose new cross-national measures of minority inclusion based on ethnic minority support for government parties. These measures will greatly aid efforts to design political institutions intended to achieve greater minority inclusion and to ameliorate ethnic conflict by allowing for more sophisticated quantitative crosscountry assessments of the effect of institutions on inclusion. I further explain how the proposed measure can be estimated to a useful degree of accuracy through multiple methods, including polls and ecological inference from ethnic and election data.

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“We Didn’t Fight for This”: The Pitfalls of State- and Nation-Building in Eritrea

Cited by 2 publications

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Nomos, Hostis, and War: State-Building Process and Armed Forces in Africa

Nomos, Hostis, and War: State-Building Process and Armed Forces in Africa

Inclusion by Design: Measuring Minority Inclusion Comparatively to Assess Institutions for Divided Societies

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