The Tigray and Eritrean Peoples Liberation Fronts

A History of Tensions and Pragmatism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4251973
AutoresJohn Young (0000-0003-4085-9306, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen34
Número1
Páginas105-120
Fecha de publicación1996-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022278x00055221
OpenAlexW1976384494
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas4

The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), and by extension the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the multi-ethnic coalition that it established and still dominates, is frequently considered to be a creation of, and beholden to, the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF). From this perspective the foreign loyalties of the TPLF made it an unsuitable, if not illegitimate, movement to lead the Transitional Government of Ethiopia (TGE) in 1991, and since 1995, the newly created Federal Democratic Republic. By way of contrast, this article attempts to demonstrate that the developing relationship between the TPLF and the EPLF during the course of their respective revolutionary struggles has been far more problematic and beset with tensions than critics are either aware of, or acknowledge, and that an understanding of their nature casts light on present and possible future differences between the respective regimes of Ethiopia and Eritrea

Democracy · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Front (military) · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Liberation movement · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy