When Success Becomes a Liability:

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" When Success Becomes a Liability: "
Redie Bereketeab

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063694
Doc. No	:	LA107323
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156921007X236963‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Redie Bereketeab
Title & Author	:	When Success Becomes a Liability: [Article] : Challenges of State Building in Eritrea (1991-2005)\ Redie Bereketeab
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African and Asian Studies
Date	:	2007
Volume/ Issue Number	:	6/4
Page No	:	395–430
Abstract	:	The article aims to discuss and analyze the post-liberation state building challenges in Eritrea. It interrogates how and why the promising start was transformed into a nightmare. It traces two sets of explanatory factors. The first is the political culture that was developed during the liberation struggle. A political culture characterized by centralization, hierarchy, collectivism, strong loyalty and discipline became an obstacle to state building and transition from a guerrilla to civilian governance. The second set of factors pertains to the second war with Ethiopia. The second war not only erased all the post-liberation achievements, but also plunged the nation into social, economic, and political structural and systemic crisis. To exist from this predicament would require emancipation from the political culture of the liberation struggle and smooth transition to a civilian democratic and constitutional governance system. The article aims to discuss and analyze the post-liberation state building challenges in Eritrea. It interrogates how and why the promising start was transformed into a nightmare. It traces two sets of explanatory factors. The first is the political culture that was developed during the liberation struggle. A political culture characterized by centralization, hierarchy, collectivism, strong loyalty and discipline became an obstacle to state building and transition from a guerrilla to civilian governance. The second set of factors pertains to the second war with Ethiopia. The second war not only erased all the post-liberation achievements, but also plunged the nation into social, economic, and political structural and systemic crisis. To exist from this predicament would require emancipation from the political culture of the liberation struggle and smooth transition to a civilian democratic and constitutional governance system.
Descriptor	:	DEMOCRATIZATION
Descriptor	:	ERITREA
Descriptor	:	LEGITIMACY
Descriptor	:	STATE BUILDING
Descriptor	:	TRANSITION
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156921007X236963‬