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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Book launch: The Horn of Africa\, State Formation and D
 ecay - Professor Christopher Clapham (Cambridge)\; Dr Harry Verhoeven (Geo
 rgetown\, Qatar)
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CONTACT:Sharath Srinivasan
DESCRIPTION:THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MAY. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCO
 NVENIENCE. \n\nAll are welcome to a book launch with the author followed b
 y drinks afterwards:\n\n*_The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay_* 
 (London\, Hurst & Co\, March 2017): http://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/th
 e-horn-of-africa/\nBy *Professor Christopher Clapham*\n\nJoined by Dr Harr
 y Verhoeven (Georgetown\, Qatar) as discussant.\n\n*About the book*\nWhy i
 s the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book\, by one of the fo
 remost scholars of the region\, traces this question through its exception
 al history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn’s cont
 emporary nation-states\, despite the striking regional particularity inher
 ited from the colonial past.\n\nChristopher Clapham explores how the Horn
 ’s peculiar topography gave rise to the Ethiopian empire\, the sole Afri
 can state not only to survive European colonialism\, but also to participa
 te in a colonial enterprise of its own.  Its impact on its neighbours\, pr
 esent-day Djibouti\, Eritrea\, Somalia and Somaliland\, created a region v
 ery different from that of post-colonial Africa. This dynamic has become a
 ll the more distinct since 1991\, when Eritrea and Somaliland emerged from
  the break-up of both Ethiopia and Somalia. \n\nYet this evolution has pro
 duced highly varied outcomes in the region’s constituent countries\, fro
 m state collapse (and deeply flawed reconstruction) in Somalia\, through m
 ilitarised isolation in Eritrea\, to a still fragile ‘developmental stat
 e’ in Ethiopia. The tensions implicit in the process of state formation 
 now drive the relationships between the once historically close nations of
  the Horn.\n\n*About the Author*\nChristopher Clapham is based at the Cent
 re of African Studies\, Cambridge University\, and recently retired as edi
 tor of The Journal of Modern African Studies. Until December 2002\, he was
  Professor of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University
 . He is a specialist in the politics of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa\, 
 and his books include Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethio
 pia (1988)\, Africa and the International System (1996)\, and African Guer
 rillas (1998).
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