In this insightful new book, Okbazghi Yohannes examines the role of U.S. foreign policy with regard to the four countries that make up the Horn of Africa: Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia, and Ethiopia.

Introduction -- The United States and Ethiopia -- The Quest for a New Paradigm of Diplomacy -- The Uneasy Alliance: 1953-1976 -- The Struggle to Win Each Other Back: 1977-1996 -- The United States and Eritrea -- At Odds with Self-Determination -- The American Quandary over Eritrea: 1952-1976 -- The Twin Strategies-Containment and Pro-Insurgency: 1977-1996 -- The United States and Somalia -- Domesticating Somalia -- Somalia Goes East: 1960-1976 -- The Somali Paradox-From Strategic Asset to Humanitarian Liability: 1977-1996 -- The United States and the Sudan -- Laying the Foundations -- The American Struggle over the "Bridge": 1956-1976 -- From Strategic Partnership to Open Confrontation: 1977-1996 -- Epilogue

Okbazghi Yohannes is associate professor of political science and international studies at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. He has written numerous articles in his field and is the author of Eritrea: A Pawn in World Politics. Currently, he is working on another book examining the political economy of Islamic radicalism in Egypt and Turkey.