GEOG 122 Lecture 4: 4-Geopolitics in the Horn of Africa
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4: cold war geopolitics: the horn of africa: superpower hegemony, the meeting of global & local (regional) scales. Interdependencies: somali diaspora in canada and elsewhere: diaspora: scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic locale; the movement of population from its original homeland. Somalia supported by the west and the un governing only a tiny portion of the territory: (cid:862)the (cid:449)orld(cid:859)s (cid:373)ost utterl(cid:455) failed state(cid:863, colonial period: Ethiopian uplands too poor to be colonized. Significant geopolitical location: head of the red sea route to europe, close to the oil-rich arabian peninsula, european colonialism inspired by location not place; political boundaries paid no attention to local conditions. Horn of africa = site of ongoing global-local relationships. Ussr established links with somalia and a naval base in berbera. Ethiopia = pro-western until the 1974 overthrow by marxist officers hostile to us. Several regional uprisings in ethiopia, including eritrea and also ogden desert by (cid:858)ethiopia(cid:374)(cid:859)
