Bereket H. Selassie.

Wounded nation : how a once promising Eritrea was betrayed and it s future compromised / Bereket Habte Selassie. - Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2011. - xiii, 311 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

"Volume II of The crown and the pen."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-303) and index.

Introduction : from the past back to the future -- Postliberation mu sings -- The gold and the base metals : leadership and the fate of a na tion -- Immaculate deception : the original sin of Eritrean politics -- Concord and discord : the tangled web of the EPLF/TPLF relationship -- The constitution and the broken promise -- What price sovereignty? : n ational leadership and border politics -- From Algiers to the Hague : m ediation and binding arbitration -- "Neighbors that share fire" : borde r dispute and proxy wars -- "The Berlin manifesto" and the G-15 : a squ andered opportunity -- The diaspora and a democratic opposition movemen t -- State and religion -- Ethnoregional politics -- Conclusion.

9781569023396 (hbk.) 9781569023402 (pbk.)

2010-037439


Bereket H. Selassie.


Lawyers -- Ethiopia -- Biography.
Judges -- Ethiopia -- Biography.


Eritrea -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

963.507/2092 B