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From Resistance to Governance: Eritrea’s Trouble with Transition

August 26, 2011 by

Less than ten years after winning its independence from Ethiopia in a war that spanned three decades, the government set up by the liberation front declined to implement a newly ratified Constitution, postponed elections indefinitely, shut down the independent press, jailed hundreds of critics and suspected dissidents, and turned the new country into a police state. This article situates this reversal within the transition from colony to independent state, explores its specific characteristics, and considers prospects for a more democratic outcome.

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