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Bereket Habte Selassie, Conflict and Intervention in the Horn of Africa(New York: Monthly Review, 1980), pp.211; $15.00.
Basil Davidson, Lionel Cliffe and Bereket Habte Selassie, eds., Behind the War in Eritrea(London: Spokesman, 1980), pp.150; £3.50.
David Pool, Eritrea: Africa's Longest War(London: Anti‐Slavery Society, 1980), pp.78; £1.50; paperback.
Judith Heyer, Pepe Roberts and Gavin Williams (eds.), Rural Development in Tropical Africa(MacMillan Press, 1981); 375pp; £25.00.

La presente recopilacion de ensayos, resultado de una conferencia celebrada en Mexico en el otono de 1983. Los ensayos se dividen en cuatro partes: la primera esta dedicada a temas conceptuales; la segunda analiza problemas relacionados con la capacidad del Estado para actuar y transformar la sociedad para mejorarla; la tercera contempla experiencias historicas concretas de la formacion del Estado en Africa, y toma casos probablemente representativos del mosaico de estados-nacion africanos a partir de la independencia; la parte cuarta esta abocada a una cuestion clave: cual es el futuro de los estados y las sociedades africanas, dada su situacion actual de crisis general y rapido deterioro?

Under the title 'The American Dilemma on the Horn', Bereket Habte Selassie published in this Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, June 1984, pp. 249–72, a lawyer's presentation of a client's case: that of the Eritrean separatists. Although my views do not necessarily represent those held by the régime in Addis Ababa, they do indicate why Ethiopians resolutely continue to defend the territorial integrity of their motherland with a degree of unity only admitted by a few writers.

Compares reigns of terror, based on summary justice, after 1974 military ouster of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, with absence of violence following 1979 triumph of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Nicaragua, emphasizing significance of national factors.

'Ann and Robert Seidman have written an invaluabe theoretical (and practical) guide for those concerned with the role of the state in development.'- Bereket Habte Selassie, Professor of African Studies, Howard University 'State and Law in the Development Process is a scholarly work and essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on the Third World, its history and development. It provides an excellent bibliography and analysis which sets out the fundamentals of research into the future development of the Third World. Expertly written, it embodies a research methodology which is linked to a theoretical perspective.' - John F. McEldowney, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Warwick The post-1945 collapse of colonialism and the emergence of new nationalist governments seemed to promise plenty for all third-world peoples. Four decades later, those promises lay in shards. This book proposes a theory to explain the failure of third-world states to transform the institutions that produce poverty and powerlessness for the mass of the population. Based on that theory, it proposes a methodology designed to facilitate the democratic exercise of state power through law to empower third world peoples to play an effective role in building a peaceful world of plenty for all.

The Crown and the Pen The Memoirs of a Lawyer Turned Rebel by Bereket Habte Selassie. The Red Sea Press, Inc., xvi+367pp., ISBN (PB) 1-569092-2763, (HB) 1-56902-2755
Having fought what many people considered a senseless war in 1998-2000, Eritrea and Ethiopia find themselves no nearer to peace some eight years later. With UNMEE, the UN force that has so far set the two forces apart, declared practically dead by both parties, there is nothing to prevent them from entering another round of fighting. The region has thus established a record for one of the longest armed confrontations in the world – a record that is now approaching the half century mark. This goes back to the first shot that was fired in the western hills of Eritrea in 1961 and signalled the birth of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF). Between then and now, the peoples of the region had a merciful respite only in the years between 1991 and 1998, the years, respectively, of the de facto independence of Eritrea and the onset of the new round of hostilities, during which time the ruling parties exhibited an outward camaraderie that concealed underlying tensions...

The Iranian revolution has faced the United States with a major strategic challenge. The United States has interpreted this & other revolutions in this area as due to Soviet expansionism & provocation. In fact, the USSR has played very little role in instigating these changes of power. The United States played a major role in producing revolution by its support for despotic rules such as H. Selassie & the Shah. Soviet policy has not been innocent, being founded on centralism & suppression of national minorities, but has not been imperialistic, though the USSR has certainly benefited from revolutionary movements which it did not instigate. 1 Figure. W. H. Stoddard.

This paper seeks to broaden the notion of the African Public sphere to include the historical Diaspora by highlighting the works of Mortimo Planno, cultural historian – Rastafari luminary and plenipotentiary – in closing the void between Africa and its Diaspora, through examining Planno's definition of the African public sphere, as articulated in his general writings and main text: 'The Earth Most Strangest Man', as well as travelogues articulating his discourse on Back-to-Africa. Mortimo Planno is credited as having tutored reggae icon Bob Marley and many others in the faith of Rastafari which was to emerge as a new world religion and way of life out of Jamaica. Planno, an outstanding pan- African scholar and activist, travelled to the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom and some fifteen African states, lecturing on the Movement developed in Jamaica, celebrating the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I as God incarnate. For more than fifty years, this elder was seen as the de facto leader of the Rastafari movement of Kingston. The study applies Paulo Freire's theory of a 'pedagogy of liberation' to assess whether Rastafari thinkers such as Planno can be seen as facilitating a trans-Atlantic conscientisation towards remedial African national development and liberation from what Garvey (1927) described as 'mental slavery'.