The Horn of Africa as a Theater of Global Hegemony and Power Positioning: Who are the Actors and Why? - The Habesha: Latest Ethiopian News, And Insightful Analysis

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The Horn of Africa as a Theater of Global Hegemony and Power Positioning: Who are the Actors and Why? - The Habesha: Latest Ethiopian News, And Insightful Analysis

*Walle Engedayehu, Ph.D. Professor of Political Science and Interim Dean Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas, U.S. A. waengedayehu@pvamu.edu Abstract: Studies on the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa have focused on the strategic importance of the region to world powers that safeguard the free movement of trade and commerce through the shipping waterways all-around the Red Sea. Two sets of countries— global and regional— are the kno…