This book analyses the historical sociology of state formation in the Horn of Africa. It examines the genesis, trajectories, processes, routes and consequences of the evolution of state formation. Three analytical and explanatory models explain the process of state formation in the HOA: proto-state, colonial and national liberation. The models, heuristically and innovatively, provide understanding, interpretation and analysis of state formation. While the proto-state model explicates an indigenous historical process of state formation, the colonial model refers to an externally designed and imposed process of state formation. The national liberation model concern state formation conducted under liberation movement and ideology. The distinct significance of these models is that collectively they generate sufficient analysis of state formation. They are also unique in that they have never been employed as aggregate analytical and explicative instruments to address the predicament of state formation in the Horn of Africa.
Author(s): Redie Bereketeab
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Challenges of State Formation
Introduction
Pathologies Hampering State Formation in the HOA
Interplay of the Pathologies
External Interventions
Conceptual Framework
Methodology
Theme and Organisation of the Book
References
2 Theories of State Formation
Introduction
Evolution of the State
Structural-Functionalist Theory
Institutionalist Theory
Social Contract Theory
Theories of the Origin of the State
Theory of the Colonial Origins of the State: The Bastard State
Diffusion Theory
Decolonisation as an Exercise of the Right to Self-Determination and State Formation
Conclusion
References
3 Proto-State Formation: Ethiopia
Introduction
A Brief History of Statehood: The Dynastic Origin of the State
The Emergence of the Modern State in Ethiopia
Haile Selassie: The Modernising Monarch
Military-Revolutionary Socialist State Formation
Rebellion, Ethnic Nationalism and Ethnic Federalist State Formation
Multiethnic State Formation Versus Ethnic Nationalist State Formation
Post-EPRDF and Post-Revolutionary Democracy State Formation
Ethnic Federalist State Formation Versus Civic State Formation
Conclusion
References
4 Colonial State Formation
Introduction
State Formation Under the Aegis of Colonialism
Consequences of Colonialism: State Deformity
Decolonisation: The Postcolonial State
Conclusion
References
5 The National Liberation State
Introduction
Protracted War and the Role of National Liberation Movements
Characteristics of the National Liberation State
Eritrea, South Sudan and Somaliland
Eritrea
South Sudan
Somaliland
Challenges of Post-Liberation State Formation
Conclusion
References
6 State Legitimacy and Government Performance in the Horn of Africa
Introduction
Sources of State Legitimacy
Definitions of Legitimacy
Conceptualising Legitimacy and Performance
Weber’s Trinity Theory
Social Contract Theory
Performance or Revolutionary Legitimacy
Government Performance
Horn of Africa: The Deficiency of, Obstacles to and Search for Legitimacy
Conclusion
References
7 Common Characteristics of the Three Typologies of State Formation: Synthesis
Introduction
Common State Functions
Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces Contesting State Formation in the Region
Conclusion
References
8 Conclusion
Introduction
Proto-State Formation
Colonial State Formation
Annexation and Voluntary Union as Deconstruction and Construction of State Formation
Institutionalisation
State Legitimacy
Globalisation Versus the Viability of the Western State Model
Conclusion
References
References
Index
