Border diplomacy and state-building in north-western Ethiopia, c. 1965–1977

Luca Puddu

Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2017, vol. 11, issue 2, 230-248

Abstract: In the first half of the twentieth century, the north-western lowlands of imperial Ethiopia were the typical interstitial frontier of the Ethiopian–Sudanese borderlands. Starting in the early 1960s, a cash crop revolution paved the way to the transformation of the Mazega into a settlement frontier and the emergence of a dispute with Sudan for demarcation of the international border. This article explores the entanglement between the political economy of frontier governance and border diplomacy in the contested area. It highlights how the management of the border dispute was deeply affected by the contradictory interests of the various layers of government and “twilight” entities that projected Ethiopian statecraft at the periphery.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2017.1314997

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