Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-265) and index.

Introduction -- Turbulent political developments in the Horn of Afri ca in the Cold War : the central role of Ethiopia, 1960s to 1980s / Jan Zahorik -- States breaking and dominoes falling? Considerations of sep aratism and international recognition in the Horn of Africa / Aleksi Yl onen -- External factors and their impact on internal political dynamic s in Ethiopia / Jan Z�ahor�ik -- State making, transnational client elism and political communities in the Horn of Africa / Solomon Golfie -- Ethiopia and China : changing relations / Gedion G. Jalata and K. Ma thews -- Eritrea : a sub-regional menace? / Aleksi Yl�onen -- Somali independence and its political connections with Nasser's Egypt / Antoni o Morone -- When the outside is inside : international features of the Somali 'civil' war / Itziar Ruiz-Gim�enez -- Crisis of statehood in S omalia / K. Mathews -- Any prospects for future peace? Politics and war surrounding the Sudan-South Sudan conundrum / Aleksi Yl�onen -- Aff irmation or erosion of sovereignty in the Horn of Africa? The case of d e facto state Somaliland / Urban Jak -- A hybrid actor in the Horn of A frica : an analysis of Turkey's involvement in Somalia / Federico Donel li -- South Sudan's oil and international engagement / Leben Moro -- Is lamization, Arabization and the break-up of the Sudan / Yosa Wawa.