The history of the USA in Eritrea: From Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and how Donald Trump changed the course of history
本书梳理二战后美国对厄立特里亚的介入，从冷战地缘战略到独立后政策，分析美国如何影响该国命运，适合研究美非关系与殖民史的学者。
Amanuel Biedemariam’s book seeks to explore the history of involvement by one global power, the United States of America (US), in one of the youngest countries within the Horn of Africa (and the world), Eritrea. Consisting of 199 pages that comprise eight chapters, as well as a general introductory section, Amanuel’s concise book examines how and why the US became interested in Eritrea following World War II, traces the contours of US involvement in the country during the Cold War and the subsequent period during Eritrea’s independence, and unpacks factors that have driven American policy toward the country over the decades. The book opens with a quick review of Eritrea’s pre-colonial and colonial history, before discussing how Eritrea, formerly an Italian colony and then under British administration, came to be federated with Ethiopia, which was ruled by Emperor Haile Selassie. After a lengthy international process seeking to develop an appropriate solution to the Eritrea question, on 2 December 1950, United Nations (UN) Resolution 390(V), passed by the General Assembly, extinguished Eritreans’ hopes and aspirations for independence, federating Eritrea with Ethiopia. The resolution was backed and sponsored by the US which, within the context of the emerging Cold War, determined that its geostrategic military interests and foreign policy aims could be better protected and served by federating Eritrea with Ethiopia, its close ally and key partner in the fight against the Soviet-led spread of Communism in Africa. A decade later, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie dissolved the federation and annexed Eritrea, triggering a thirty year armed struggle in Eritrea.