Introduction: Eritrea’s Uneasy Futures and their Historical Contingencies
To introduce this special issue of Modern Africa, the editors review Eritrea’s current condition and consider its historical roots: they place this Horn of Africa state in a broader historical context, one where neither relevant comparative cases nor past precedents are limited to its region. Hopes...
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To introduce this special issue of Modern Africa, the editors review Eritrea’s current condition and consider its historical roots: they place this Horn of Africa state in a broader historical context, one where neither relevant comparative cases nor past precedents are limited to its region. Hopes that were once invested in Eritrea as a model developmental state have now, thirty years since its independence, been thoroughly disappointed. The human rights violations and persistent underdevelopment that make an Eritrean transition necessary are very real: equally real are the risks and dangers that would be involved in any such transition. Recent cases of failed transition are discussed here: so too are the possible routes Eritrea might take to a “developmental democracy.” This issue’s various contributions are then introduced and summarised.
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| spelling | doaj-art-426e8d9e5ee8441490771e7a3eb07ab32025-08-20T02:57:08ZengUniversity of Hradec KrálovéModern Africa2336-32742570-75582022-08-0110110.26806/modafr.v10i1.417Introduction: Eritrea’s Uneasy Futures and their Historical ContingenciesDavid O’Kane0Sabine Mohamed1Magnus Treiber2Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyJohns Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States of AmericaLMU Munich, Germany To introduce this special issue of Modern Africa, the editors review Eritrea’s current condition and consider its historical roots: they place this Horn of Africa state in a broader historical context, one where neither relevant comparative cases nor past precedents are limited to its region. Hopes that were once invested in Eritrea as a model developmental state have now, thirty years since its independence, been thoroughly disappointed. The human rights violations and persistent underdevelopment that make an Eritrean transition necessary are very real: equally real are the risks and dangers that would be involved in any such transition. Recent cases of failed transition are discussed here: so too are the possible routes Eritrea might take to a “developmental democracy.” This issue’s various contributions are then introduced and summarised. https://journals.uhk.cz/modernafrica/article/view/224rethinking transitionstate-makingdevelopmental democracysocialityHorn of Africa |
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| title | Introduction: Eritrea’s Uneasy Futures and their Historical Contingencies |
| title_full | Introduction: Eritrea’s Uneasy Futures and their Historical Contingencies |
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| title_short | Introduction: Eritrea’s Uneasy Futures and their Historical Contingencies |
| title_sort | introduction eritrea s uneasy futures and their historical contingencies |
| topic | rethinking transition state-making developmental democracy sociality Horn of Africa |
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