The Horn of Africa : state politics and international relations

Nowhere is the crumbling of state structures more self-evident than in Somalia, the Sudan and Ethiopia.

Drawing on a wide range of little-known material, this book presents an overview of structural disintegration in the Horn of Africa from the dual perspectives of domestic and international political developments.The breakdown of these three major states is due, according to Woodward, to the ravages of civil war.

He argues that, while all three conflicts arise from domestic issues, their scale has been magnified by international involvement which has also linked the three countries together, with Ethiopia as the crux.The Horn of Africa is a study of the national and international dimensions of these conflicts, examining not only the relations between the three countries, but also their relations with a variety of regional actors as well as with the superpowers.