KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. His books include, with Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea (2017).

Offers a methodical, original, and highly informed account of the contested political identities that have marked Africa's second most populous country in the past two decades. [...] This book deserves the attention of all students of contemporary Ethiopian (and Eritrean) politics. Moreover, it provides critical insights for scholars interested in the ethnography of war, nationalism, and border studies in Africa.

• Introduction: making enemies & alliesLand, hierarchy & alliances in Highland EthiopiaHistorical trajectories of enemy imagesAlternating enemies & allies: ethnicity in playWar behind the frontlines: individual approachesRecontructing 'Ethiopianness': competing nationalismsEthiopia & its malcontents: purifying the nationConclusion: arresting Ethiopian nationalismPostscript: after war, new enemies

KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. His books include, with Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea (2017).

Offers a methodical, original, and highly informed account of the contested political identities that have marked Africa's second most populous country in the past two decades. [...] This book deserves the attention of all students of contemporary Ethiopian (and Eritrean) politics. Moreover, it provides critical insights for scholars interested in the ethnography of war, nationalism, and border studies in Africa.

• Introduction: making enemies & alliesLand, hierarchy & alliances in Highland EthiopiaHistorical trajectories of enemy imagesAlternating enemies & allies: ethnicity in playWar behind the frontlines: individual approachesRecontructing 'Ethiopianness': competing nationalismsEthiopia & its malcontents: purifying the nationConclusion: arresting Ethiopian nationalismPostscript: after war, new enemies

KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. His books include, with Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea (2017).

Offers a methodical, original, and highly informed account of the contested political identities that have marked Africa's second most populous country in the past two decades. [...] This book deserves the attention of all students of contemporary Ethiopian (and Eritrean) politics. Moreover, it provides critical insights for scholars interested in the ethnography of war, nationalism, and border studies in Africa.

• Introduction: making enemies & alliesLand, hierarchy & alliances in Highland EthiopiaHistorical trajectories of enemy imagesAlternating enemies & allies: ethnicity in playWar behind the frontlines: individual approachesRecontructing 'Ethiopianness': competing nationalismsEthiopia & its malcontents: purifying the nationConclusion: arresting Ethiopian nationalismPostscript: after war, new enemies