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From: Peter Limb, University of Western Australia
List Editor: Ezekiel Gebissa <egebissa@kettering.edu>
Editor's Subject: Berlin conference and nation-states: reply
Author's Subject: Berlin conference and nation-states: reply
Date Written: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:08:25
Date Posted: Thu, 22 Mar 2000 10:27:24 -0500

        <plimb@library.uwa.edu.au>


In regard to the issue of the unravelling of Ethiopia, I merely
was thinking that, in comparison to the days before the secession
of Eritrea, the boundaries of Ethiopia have certainly changed and
that there has been considerable re-arranging of previous
structures. A country that loses part of its territory and
suffers further secessionist struggles could be seen as a little
bit "unravelled," though perhaps I chose the wrong term.

One could also argue that Somalia is no longer "unravelled"  in
the sense that Puntland and the South of the country now function
in a new, re-constituted "ravelled" way (the dictionary
definition of ravelled is: "entangled, confused, complicated". In
one sense, Ethiopia is perhaps just as "tangled" in these issues
today. My reference was really to the structure of specific
nation-states.

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