The push to modernize military affairs is turning to non-state actors and technologies to conduct many tasks that are traditionally undertaken by the states’ military forces. Governments seek out proxy alliances, private/nonstate military forces and technological proliferation when the political or material costs of directly intervention are unpleasantly high. The use of these methods for... Continue Reading →
Written By: Jon Abbink Since 4 November 2020, a devastating armed conflict has been raging in northern Ethiopia. Developments in this war, which started with a well-prepared nightly assault of the then-ruling Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF[1]) on federal army bases in Tigray Regional State, are going fast (see also Abbink 2021a, 3-4). The war was expanded by the... Continue Reading →
No regular reader of my columns at World Politics Review can be surprised by now that I believe the future of Africa is one of the most important as well as one of the most neglected questions facing humankind. Africa is so routinely marginalized from the concerns of global affairs that even among otherwise well-informed... Continue Reading →
War is an inescapable reality of human society and is characterized as a continuation of national policy in the pursuit for specific end. War has also played a central role in the formation of international order and its maintenance. States use armed conflict for national policy goals. Since the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the two... Continue Reading →
Following the end of World War II, the United States has involved in “Nation-Building” projects to help rebuild countries engulfed civil and interstate wars. The U.S. has successfully delivered its promise to restore security and stability in 1953 in Korea but failed to do so in Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. U.S. failure in these countries... Continue Reading →
The Gulf States are heavily investing in the Horn of Africa, and their influence and money have upended politics in Somalia and Sudan in particular, and often for the worst today. This region of Africa became a new power arena, its closest point is 10-15 kilometers from Arabian Peninsula, like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, particularly,... Continue Reading →
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