The Defeat of the Derg and the Establishment of New Governments in Ethiopia and Eritrea

This paper describes how two erstwhile Marxist guerrilla movements — the Tigrean and the Eritrean Popular Liberation Fronts (TPLF and EPLF) — transformed themselves into effective fighting forces with a pragmatic political and economic approach and how, in the process, Soviet influence in the Horn of Africa became irrelevant and U.S.