Ethiopia and Eritrea in Transition: The Impact of Ethnicity on Politics and Development

The Defeat of the Derg and the Establishment of New Governments in Ethiopia and Eritrea

This paper describes how the Tigrean and the Eritrean Popular Liberation Fronts (TPLF and EPLF) transformed themselves into effective fighting forces with a pragmatic political and economic approach.

The Primacy of Economics for the Future of the Horn of Africa

This paper, prepared for a conference on The Horn of Africa--Its Political and Economic Future, held at the University of London, November 1991, deals with problems and possibilities in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It also touches briefly on the situations ...

Ethiopia in 1991 — Peace Through Struggle

This trip report is based on briefings before the National Endowment for Democracy on July 26, 1991.

Eritrean Options and Ethiopia's Future

Analyzes the present critical political/economic/military impasse in Ethiopia, with emphasis on Eritrea as the key to the problem.

Is There Hope for the Horn of Africa? Reflections on the Political and Economic Impasses

This Note is the extended and updated version of a paper that was presented at a conference on Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Causes and Prospects, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Jun...

Ethiopia — Contrasts and Contradictions

This paper, based on a presentation at the Georgetown University Intercultural Center, Washington, D.C., in September 1987, summarizes impressions of Ethiopia gained during a three-week visit in March 1987.