The New External Politics of the Horn of Africa: Competition and Cooperation

Lwanga Egbewatt Arrey
In light of increasing global tensions exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war and the return of great power strategic competition, ISDP’s Asia Program intern Lwanga Egbewatt Arrey sat down with international security expert Dr. Neil Melvin to discuss how the current security dynamics have led to an amalgamation of the Indo-Pacific and the Horn of Africa as a contiguous geopolitical space with possibilities for both cooperation and competition.
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