Borders of violence - boundaries of identity: Demarcating the Eritrean nation-state

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1037-1060

  Tronvoll, Kjetil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Borders; Boundaries; Conflict; Eritrea; Identity; Nationalism

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY DELIMITATION; ETHNOPOLITICS; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; NATION STATE;

ERITREA;

EID: 0033429813     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014198799329233     Document Type: Article

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