Unfinished Business: Ethiopia And Eritrea At War [Paperback]

Dominique Jacquin-Berdal (Editor), Martin Plaut (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 294 pages
• Publisher: Red Sea Pr (January 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569022178
• ISBN-13: 978-1569022177
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,958,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #51 in Books > History > Africa > Eritrea

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3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better, January 4, 2006

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This review is from: Unfinished Business: Ethiopia And Eritrea At War (Paperback)

This book tries to present a wide view/approach into the so called 'border' conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Most of the chapters are well researched, prepared, and written. However, it looks like the book was rushed for publication. There are some very obvious mistakes. For instance, there are a few places where the names of the countries were interchanged (by mistake I assume).
Most of all, the last chapter of the book by Patrick Giles on 'Violence & identity along the Eritrean-Ethiopian border' was a total failure in covering the major factor to the crisis. It is public knowledge that the 'identity' crisis and 'Greater Tigray' ambition of the Ethiopian governement was one of the main factors which escalated the conflict to the highest level. Instead of covering this fact, the writer concentrated on some very minor topics which seemed to have the goal of painting a negative image of Eritrea. This chapter sounds more of an Ethiopian propaganda more than anything and SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK.