Woldemariam Speaks at Middle East Institute on Horn of Africa
Michael Woldemariam, Assistant Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke as part of a May 20, 2019 panel hosted by the Middle East Institute on global political and economic engagement on the Horn of Africa. The conference was aired on C-Span.
The panel that Woldemariam spoke on, entitled “Global Engagement in Northeast Africa,” focused on the region’s relationship with other Middle East countries as well as China’s influence in the region. You can watch the entire discussion here.
Woldemariam’s teaching and research interests focus on African politics, particularly the dynamics of armed conflict, the behavior of rebel organizations and self-determination movements, and post-conflict institution building. He has special expertise in the Horn of Africa, and has conducted fieldwork in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Somaliland, South Africa, and India. His first book, Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Rebellion and its Discontents, was released by Cambridge University Press in 2018. It examines the causes and dynamics of rebel fragmentation in contemporary civil wars through a close examination of the Ethiopian and Somali conflicts. Research on this topic and others has been published (or is forthcoming) in Terrorism and Political Violence, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Journal of Eastern African Studies, and a number of edited volumes.