Foreign powers and militarism in the horn of Africa: part I
Open Access
- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Review of African Political Economy in Review of African Political Economy
- Vol. 11 (30)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03056248408703580
Abstract
A central argument of this paper is that the conflicts in the Horn can be understood as a collision of geographical cycles: those established by the working out of local historical processes in the Horn; and those by the working out of historical processes at the global level, including crises in the international economy and the new Cold War. Weapons have been one of the crucial links between these cycles. They have also been central in the emergence of hegemonic cycles at the global level. Major powers aquire interests in global territory, airspace and oceans both to protect their own access to resources and to valorise their accumulation of arms and military power.Keywords
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