GEOG 122 Lecture 4: Cold War conflicts: the Horn of Africa
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Cold war geopoliics: the horn of africa: superpower hegemony, the meeing of global and local (regional) scales. Few resources, deserts, droughts, semi-nomadic tribes, inland ethiopian highlands too poor to be colonized, strategic locaion on the red sea route to arabia/arabian peninsula (middle eastern shaterbelt), oil access. Major powers uninterested in its regional character, because they only saw the logic of locaion, a geographic abstracion. For colonial powers and cold war superpowers, less a region than a locaion, less a place than a space sea power is what matered about the horn of africa. Lines drawn on the map that paid no atenion to local geographies social geography ignored. Chrisian ethiopia, friend of the west, over-deined, incorporaing muslim somalis in ogaden desert, Independence of somalia achieved in 1960, italian and briish somaliland become one country of. At that ime: briish in aden, french in djiboui, us in ethiopia (not formally colonial)
