Publications Books 1. 1992: Nationsbegreppet: En Kritisk analys utifrån Fallet Eritrea (Unpublished Bachelor Degree). 2. 2000: Eritrea: The Making of a Nation, 1890-1991 (PhD thesis). 3. 2007: Eritrea: Making of a Nation, 1890-1991.Trenton NJ, The Red Sea Press 4. 2009: State Building in Post-liberation Eritrea: Prospects, Potentialities and Challenges. Adonis &Abbey Publishers Ltd 5. 2016 Revising the Eritrean National Liberation Movement, 1961-1991: Red Sea Press Co-editor 6. 2012 Regional Integration, Identity and Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa, co-ed. London: James Currey Editor 7. 2013 The Horn of Africa: Intra-State Inter-State Conflicts and Security, (ed). London: Pluto Publishers (January 2013) 8. 2015 Self-determination and Secessionism in Africa: The Post-colonial State (ed.), Routledge (ed.) 9. 2016/7 State Building and National Identity Reconstruction in the Horn of Africa (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan 10. National Liberation Movements as Governments (forth coming). Palgrave Macmillan Book Chapters 11. 2002: Eritrea. An Entry in the Encyclopædia on Twentieth Century African History, Routledge, 2002. 12. 2002: Asmara. An Entry in the Encyclopaedia on Twentieth Century African History, Routledge 2002.
13. 2004: Perilous Dualism: Language, Religion and Identity in Poly-Ethnic Eritrea, in Harri Englund and Francis Nyamnjoh (eds), Rights and Politics of Recognition in Africa. London: Zed Books 14. 2005: Building Culture of Peace in Horn of Africa. Conference Proceeding, SIRC, Lund, Sweden 15. 2005: Eritrea, In Africa Year Book 2004: Politics, Economy, and Society South of the Sahara, Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber, Klaas Van Walraven (eds). Brill; Leiden Boston 16. 2007: The Eritrean Diaspora: Myth and Reality, in Ulf Johansson (ed), The Role of Diasporas in Peace, Democracy and Development in Horn of Africa. Lund, Social Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Department of Political Science 17. 2008: Local Governance: Community Empowerment or Reinforcement of the Centre, in Diaspora and State Formation in the Horn of Africa, (submitted) 18. 2008: Territoriality as Basis of State Formation and Civic Affiliation as Basis of Nationhood: The Case of Eritrea, in Somali Diaspora and State Reconstitution in the Horn of Africa, Mammo Muchie, Joakim Gundel and Abdulkadir Osman Farah (eds). (submitted) 19. 2008: State Building Project of Peace Building in the Horn of Africa, in Ulf Johansson (ed), Post-Conflict Peace-Building,. Lund, Social Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Department of Political Science 20. 2009: The Eritrea-Ethiopia Conflict and the Algiers Agreement: Eritrea s March Down the Road to Isolation, in Richard Reid (ed), Eritrea s External Relations: Understanding Its Regional Role and Foreign Policy. London: Chatham House 21. 2009: The Ethnic and Civic Basis of Citizenship in the Horn of Africa, in Sthlm Policy Group (ed.), Faith Citizenship, Democracy and Peace in Horn of Africa. Research Report in Social Anthropology 2009: 4 22. 2011 Heregot Abbay, Dictionary of African Biography, Oxford University Press, vol. I, pp. 30-31 23. 2011 Asfaha Welde Mikael, Dictionary of African Biography, Oxford University Press, vol. I, pp. 276-7 24. 2011 Gebre Meskel Woldu, Dictionary of African Biography, Oxford University Press, vol. I, pp. 444-5 25. 2012: Interstate and Intrastate Conflicts, Peace and Stability, The Greater Horn of Africa: Livelihoods, Institutions, Conflict & Peace. UNESCO Publications
26. 2012: Re-conceptualising Identity, Citizenship and Regional Integration in the Greater Horn Region, in Kidane Mengisteab and Redie Bereketeab (eds), Regional Integration, Identity and Citizenship in the Greater Horn Region. London: James Currey 27. 2012 Inter-Governmental Authority on Development: A Critical Analysis, in Kidane Mengisteab and Redie Bereketeab (eds), Regional Integration, Identity and Citizenship in the Greater Horn Region. London: James Currey 28. 2013: Introduction, in Redie Bereketeab (ed), The Horn of Africa: Intra-state, Interstate Conflicts and Security. London: Pluto Publishers 29. 2013 State Building, Conflict and Global War on Terror in the Horn of Africa, in Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatshenu and Brilliant Mhlanga (eda) Bondage of Boundaries and Identity Politics in Postcolonial Africa: The Northern Problem and Ethno-Futures. Pretoria: African Institute of South Africa 30. 2014 Self-Determination and Secession: African Challenges, in Redie Bereketeab (ed.), Self-Determination and Secession in Africa: The Post-Colonial State. London New York: Routledge 31. 2014 Eritrea a Colonial Creation: A Case of Aborted Decolonisation, in Redie Bereketeab (ed.) Self-determination and Secessionism in Africa: The Post-colonial State in Africa. London and New York: Routledge 32. 2014 Geo-strategic Intervention and Its Consequences in the Horn of Africa, in African Dynamics in a Multipolar World, 5 th European Conference on African Studies 33. 2016 Introduction: The Challenges of State Building, State Reconstruction and National Identity Reconfiguration, Redie Bereketeab (ed.) State Building and National Identity Reconstruction in the Horn of Africa. Palgrave Macmillan 34. 2016 Conclusion: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction, in Redie Bereketeab (ed.) State Building and National Identity Reconstruction in the Horn of Africa. Palgrave Macmillan Reviewed Journal Articles 35. 2002: Supra-ethnic Nationalism, in African Sociological Review, 6, 2 36. 2007: When Success Becomes a Liability: Challenges of State Building in Eritrea (1991-2005), in African and Asian Studies, Vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 395-430 37. 2009: Conceptualising Civil Society in Africa: The case of Eritrea, in Journal of Civil society, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 35-59
38. 2010: The Politics of Language in Eritrea: Equality of Languages vs. Bilingual Official Language Policy, African and Asian Studies, vol. 9 (1-2), pp. 149-190 39. 2010: The Complex Roots of the Second Eritrea-Ethiopia War: Re-examining the Causes, African Journal of International Affairs, vol.13, 1&2, pp. 15-59 40. 2011: The Ethnic and Civic Foundations of Citizenship and Identity in the Horn of Africa, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, vol. 11, no.1, pp 63-81 41. 2011 Inter-State Conflicts in the Horn of Africa, Horn of Africa Journal, 2/2011 42. 2011 Re-Thinking State Building in the Horn of Africa: Challenges of Striking Balance between Traditional and Modern Institutions, African Studies, vol. 70, no. 3 pp. 376-392 43. 2011 State Crisis, Conflicts and International Intervention in the Horn of Africa. Published online 44. 2012 Self-Determination and Secessionism in Somaliland and South Sudan: Challenges to Postcolonial State-building, Discussion paper, The Nordic Africa Institute 45. 2012 Re-examining Local Governance in Eritrea: The Redrawing of Administration Regions, African and Asian Studies, vol. 11, pp. 1-29 46. 2013 Les defies de la construction de l Etat au Sud-Soudan, Afrique Contemporaine, vol. 246, pp. 35-52 47. 2013 The Morality of the UN Security Council Sanctions against Eritrea: Defensibility, Political Objectives, Consequence, African Studies Review, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 145-161 48. 2014 Redefining National Identity and Nation-Building in Post-Secession Sudans: Civic and Ethnic Models, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, vol. 14, no. 2, pp.302-318 49. 2014 The Challenges of Regional Integration in the Horn of Africa, Journal of US-China Public Administration, vol.11, n. 5, pp. 401-414 50. 2014 Environmental Change, Conflicts and Problems of Sustainable Development in the Horn of Africa, African and Asian Studies, vol. 13, pp. 291-314 51. 2014 Post-Liberation State Building in South Sudan: Potentials and Challenges, Journal of African Foreign Affairs, vol. 1, issue, 1, pp. 25-60 52. 2015 State Building-Peace Building Nexus: The Horn of Africa, The Algerian Journal of Political Sciences and International Relations, issue 4
Periodicals Others 53. 2003: International Conference on Prospects for a Horn of Africa Conference. News from the Nordic Africa Institute 1/2003 54. 2004: Dynamics of National Service in Eritrea. News from the Nordic African Institute 1/2004 55. 2007: Sharpened Risk for War Between Eritrea and Ethiopia, in Horn of Africa Bulletin, April, 2007 56. 2011 Kenya s Invasion of Somalia and Its Implication for the Horn of Africa, NAI Forum, November 2011 57. 2011 Southern Sudan-Lasting Peace, at Last?, NAI Forum, February 2011 58. 2012 Havoc in the Horn of Africa: The Politics of Geo-strategic interest still Rules, NAI Forum, April 2, 2012 59. 2012 Self-Determination and Secession: A 21 st Century Challenges to the Post-colonial State in Africa, Policy Note 2012/5. The Nordic Africa Institute 60. 2013 A Wind of Change in Sudan: Opening the Public Sphere or Political Rhetoric?, NAI Forum, May 15, 2013 61. 2013 Djibouti: A Dangerous Deadlock, NAI Forum, 11 August 2013 62. 2013 Post-Secession State-Building and Reconstruction: Somaliland, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan, Policy Note 2013/1 63. 2015 Why South Sudan Conflict is Proving Intractable: Ugandan Forces and Lack of International Commitment Two Reasons, Policy Note 4, 2015 64. 2015 Democracy or One-Party System: Political Development in the Sudan after the 2015 Election, Policy Note 8, 2015 65. 2016. Eritrea s Refugee Crisis and the Role of the International Community, Policy Note no.2: 2016