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Subject: Midwest Book Review: Eritrea and Ethiopa
Date: 17 Aug 1995 10:26:02 -0400

Eritrea and Ethiopia
Amare Tekle
The Red Sea Press
15 Industry Court, Trenton, NJ 08638
0-932415-97-0   $16.95

Eritrea and Ethiopia have the best potential to start the great movement
to create a stable, peaceful and cooperative order in the Horn of Africa,
if only because the two have, even during the last three dark decades of
forced and unhappy partnership, developed a rudimentary economic
relationship that ties them together which can, with a little
restructuring, be geared to mutual advantage. It is proposed that Eritrea
and Ethiopia constitute a core in a Horn of Africa system. If we accept
that, and the additional proposal that the Horn of Africa itself forms a
distinct system in international relations, then relations within the
core, and indeed the larger system, must be premised on the shift from one
type of integration to another -- i.e. from the hegemonism of empire to
free association in a political community. A fully integrated community
can be achieved only upon the acceptance of a pluralistic integration
process. This collection of essays addresses the prospects and problems in
the process of creating a single, integrated community in the Horn of
Africa.