From: emmanuel (emmanuel@bayou.com)
Date: Sun Sep 23 2007 - 23:00:18 EDT
/1. *Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War*/.
Tekeste Negash and Kjetil Tronvoll. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001,
190 pp. $42.95 (paper, $18.95).
*Africa*
By Gail M. Gerhart
From /Foreign Affairs/, September/October 2001
Between May 1998 and June 2000, Ethiopia and Eritrea fought what was at
the time the biggest and bloodiest war in the world. While the Western
powers and international news media focused on Kosovo, two of the
world's poorest countries spent hundreds of millions of dollars to
settle what was ostensibly a minor border dispute. How did this quarrel
become so lethal, and why did the outside world do so little? The
authors dismiss the view that the conflict was about borders. Instead
they link the complex historical, ideological, and economic factors at
work to show that the conflict was a civil war between the
Tigrinya-speaking peoples who straddle the common border and whose
leaders rule both countries. The authors argue that a failure to grasp
the war's underlying causes made international mediators ineffectual,
while political immaturity handicapped the ruling guerrilla chieftains
on both sides. Sixteen documentary appendices add to the value of this
case study in failed conflict resolution.
Interview with Professor Tekeste Negash and Dr. Aleme Eshete
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8652228181588974514
2. N. Tekeste,* /Italian Colonialism in Eritrea: 1882–1941/*/*:
Policies, Praxis, and Impact *(Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University.../
(1987);