دانلود کتاب Eritrea: A Dream Deferred

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CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES & MAPS
PREFACE: ‘Washing Dirty Linen in Public’?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
1 Introduction
The People’s Front for Democracy and Justice
The structure of the book
Methodology and data sources
Loss of illusion
Submission to tyrannical power
2 The Broken Promises, Demand for Change & Violation of Human Rights
The dangers of ruling without ‘brakes’
The border war: a convenient alibi for tyranny
The dissident Group of 15 (the G15)
Who are the G15?
Securitisation and violation of human rights
The broken promises
3 Associational Life in Independent Eritrea
The international context: the new policy agenda
State and civil society in Eritrea and the PFDJ mass organisations
National NGOs
Professional associations
The government’s assault on civil society organisations
Post-independence government policy on NGOs
4 Towards
An Explanation
The clandestine roots of intolerance
‘Dependency syndrome’ and the Eritrean state
The sovereignty myth
Competition for financial and human resources
The obsession with self-reliance
Incompatibility of civic pluralism with a monolithic and centralising political movement
Perceived threat to national security
Arrogance: ‘We know better than the rest’
Misconceived notion of national unity
5 The Demise of the Private Sector
EPLF policies and the private sector
The EPLF/PFDJ and the private sector in the immediate post-independence period
Hostility towards diaspora, expellee and stayee
entrepreneurs
The private sector from illusory centre stage to stigmatisation
Findings of the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s study
Correct diagnosis and wrong policy prescriptions
Inflation soars, the crisis deepens and the assault on the private sector intensifies
Calling for revenge?
The banning of the private sector in construction
Democratic transition stifled through suppression of free enterprise
6 PFDJ’s Dominance of the Economy & the Consequences
PFDJ Office of Economic Affairs
The Hidri Trust Fund
Economic domination as a means of ideological indoctrination
PFDJ dominance of the national economy
Unfair competition
PFDJ economic dominance
Is PFDJ’s economic dominance a threat to national security?
7 Freedom of Association, Political Stability & Institutions
Freedom of association, the principle of civic duty and the rule of law
What of the Eritrean opposition groups?
Uqub: freedom of association, bonding and bridging social capital
Questioning the opposition
Freedom of association and its potential pitfalls
Political stability and the opposition groups
The anti-politics of exclusion, violation of human rights and erosion of social capital
‘Groupthink’, bonding social capital and the stifling of institutional and bureaucratic development
What is to be done?
8 Shattered Promises: In Lieu of a Conclusion
The betrayed promises
Shattered optimism
Dearth of freedom, institutions and the rule of law
Is the president to blame for everything?
The stigmatisation of intellectuals
What of the G15?
In the grip of nationalism
POSTSCRIPT:
The Impending Famine?
REFERENCES
INDEX