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THE HORN OF AFRICA: POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. By PETER WOODWARD. (International Library of African Studies, 6.) London, I. B. Tauris, 1996. ix + 226 pp., one map. L39.50.
The unifying principle of the Horn of Africa, as of this book about its state politics and external relations, appears to be instability. There is a lack of agreement even about which territories constitute the Horn; northeast-Africa-minus-Egypt is a rather inelegant variant but just as accurate. That the Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti, the states Peter Woodward surveys have in common recent and continuing secessionist movements, civil wars, and humanitarian...