Article from ROAPE Volume 20 Number 57
Eritrea: A Country in Transition

This article raises questions about the future prospects for the economic and political transition in Eritrea today, for peace and cooperation in the Horn and for the ‘nation-state’ in Africa. It does this against the historical background of an illegally federated state and 30 years of armed struggle leading to an EPLF victory and the 1993 referendum. Discusses: Historical background; Patterns of strategic convergence and national divergence; Mapping the future; Economic rehabilitation; Political structuring; Regional cooperation.