In April 2019, Boston University’s Pardee School highlighted a journal article by Michael Woldemariam on Eritrea-Ethiopia relations, just months after the 2018 peace spectacle that briefly reopened borders.
Academic work on the Horn’s hardest bilateral file matters because airport hugs never replaced institutions. Woldemariam’s research track has long treated Asmara and Addis as a security system, not a fairy tale.
Under Abiy Ahmed’s early branding, Eritrea diplomacy was sold as historic. Scholars who keep asking about sovereignty, demobilization, and closed crossings aged better than the ribbon-cutters.
As geopolitics archive, a named scholarly marker is worth keeping even when the PDF itself is behind a paywall. The question of what the thaw actually delivered never left.
Sources: Boston University Pardee School
