Redie Bereketeab

Senior Researcher and Associate Professor

You can reach our researchers at nai@nai.uu.se

ORCID: 0000-0002-4378-1893 External link, opens in new window.

Redie Bereketeab, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. He earned his doctorate in Sociology from Uppsala University. His research specializes in political and development sociology, with particular emphasis on the state and state formation, nation and nation formation, as well as identity and nationalism.

Background

Redie is a sociologist by training with over two decades of experience in multidisciplinary research. His work at the Nordic Africa Institute has focused on the Horn of Africa, regional economic communities (RECs), and peacebuilding processes across the African continent.

Research

Bereketeab’s research interests encompass political and development sociology, state and nation formation, identity, nationalism, conflict and peacebuilding, regional economic communities, regional integration, regionalism, African studies, and geopolitics. His ongoing projects include: (i) Conflict and State Building in the Horn of Africa and (ii) Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and Peacebuilding in Africa. His work examines how the incomplete processes of nation- and state-building underpin many of the complex challenges facing Africa. He also investigates the role of geopolitics and external interventions in exacerbating crises of state and nation formation, as well as the relationship between conflict and state-building, with particular attention to how foreign interventions undermine these processes.

Bereketeab has conducted research in the Horn of Africa for over two decades, including extensive empirical fieldwork. He has also undertaken field studies on five RECs—AMU, ECCAS, ECOWAS, IGAD, and SADC. His scholarly contributions include more than one hundred publications, spanning books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles.

Current Position and Affiliations

Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute
Founding member of the Greater Horn Horizon Forum (GHHF)
Member of Board of Advisers Somali International Rehabilitation (SIRC)
Non-resident Fellow Middle East Council on Global Affairs (MECGA)
Member of Editorial Board for Discourse: Journal of Strategic Studies at the Institute of Foreign Affairs (The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia)