ISS Lecture - State-Building and State-Destroying in the Horn of Africa
Professor John Markakis is Emeritus Professor, University of Crete, Greece. The Horn of Africa holds the continental record for inter-state conflicts and civil wars.The cause of this turmoil is a persistent indigenous struggle to change the geopolitical pattern that emerged with decolonization comprising four states – Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti. Several rival nation-state building projects have been working at cross purposes ever since, and the consequence is the mutilation of the first two states, the collapse of the third, the emergence of two new states – Eritrea, South Sudan - and a third candidate for statehood, Somaliland. Professor Markakis will devote his lecture to explaining the prospects for state-building in the Horn of Africa.
