Ruth IyobUniversity of Missouri - St. Louis | UMSL · Department of Political Science
Ruth Iyob
Doctor of Philosophy
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Among scholars of African politics, Edmond Keller stands out as a key voice in the last three decades of the field. The study of Horn of Africa politics, democratization and human rights, along with crucial, intellectual and political trends such as Afro-Marxism, citizenship, federalism and religious identities have all been the subject of his scho...
Abdullahi A.Gallab, A Civil Society Deferred: The Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2011). Pp. 264. $74.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. - Volume 44 Issue 4 - Ruth Iyob
Victor T. Le Vine, professor emeritus of political science, analyst, and commentator, died on May 7, 2010, after a brief illness. Le Vine, an only son, was born in Berlin in 1928. His family fled Nazi Germany and lived in France until they immigrated to the United States in 1938. A polyglot, fluent in French, German, and Russian, he was a rigorous...
Messay Kebede's book reopens the debate over the question of why the students who benefited most from Emperor Haile Selassie's educational policies chose Marxism-Leninism over liberalism as the guiding ideology for transforming Ethiopian society during the 1960s and 1970s. The author defines liberalism as "the protection of individual rights achiev...
This chapter will focus on the madamas, colonial women who contracted to provide all the “comforts of home” to male Italian settlers in East Africa. I discuss the case of Eritrea, which, being the first settler colony of the new Italian state, occupied a central place in the narratives glorifying Italy’s mandate to “civilize” Africa.1 Fueled by sta...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Tom Killion has produced a very useful guide for those seeking to understand the history of Africa's newest nation. The Historical Dictionary of Eritrea is in keeping with a long tradition of scholarly works which served two generations of students and scholars of Africa, beginning with...
THIS is an attempt to assess Eritrea's democratic
prospects in light of
its political experience since 1993 as a sovereign state. I readily concede
that it is too early to make a definitive assessment; yet,
just as a child's
first few years are extraordinarily critical in helping to determine its
subsequent intellectual, physical, and mora...
Contested territories and challenges to state sovereignty have become almost the norm in post-colonial Africa. The nexus of many of these conflicts resides in a status quo which gives primacy to territorial integrity over the right of peoples to self-determination. The comparative advantage thus accorded to sovereign states has resulted in a disequ...