An increasingly consolidated anthropological scholarship has moved from a legal notion of
sovereignty towards an analysis of its violent enactment. Yet, it has paid insufficient attention …

Recent approaches to urban borderlands employ border studies theories to analyze urban
socio-spatial differentiation. Such approaches highlight how patterns of segregation …

Analysts documenting the proliferation of border controls amidst the global War on Terror
have highlighted recent extensions of state sovereignty into new geographies. Such shifts …

Borders are central to cooperation and conflict between communities and states in the
Somali inhabited Horn of Africa. Often overlooked because of their peripheral location …

This work focuses on the Gaboye–a cluster of minority groups resident in several Somali
territories–who live in the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland. Somaliland is a region of …

Executive summary In Somaliland and Ethiopia's Somali Regional State, small-scale
informal trading far exceeds formal trade. However, most recent writing on trade in this …

Cadastral maps, which are designed as comprehensive systems for recording and
surveying land relations, are critical for making society legible and governable. However …

This article provides an account of the relationship between imperial Ethiopia and Eritrea in
the realm of banking governance from the start of the federation to the last years of the …

“It is only by triangulating both depth and surface dimensions of contemporary urbanism that
we can hope to get a purchase on what is actually going on,” write Simone and Pieterse …

This thesis examines international relations theoretical approaches to the sources of conflict.
It focuses on three particular aspects: ideology, territory, and ethnicity. These theoretical …