Redie Bereketeab

Senior Researcher and Associate Professor

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

Redie Bereketeab is a senior researcher and associate professor with a special interest on political and development sociology, state, nation, nationalism, culture, identity, conflict, governance, democratisation and development.

Member, Scientific Committee, The Journal of US Africa Studies External link, opens in new window., Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto
Member, Executive Committee, Greater Horn Horizon Forum External link, opens in new window.
Member, Advisory Board, Somali International Rehabilitation Centre (SIRC External link, opens in new window.)

Redie Bereketeab holds a PhD in sociology from the Department of Sociology. Uppsala University, Sweden. He worked as a research fellow at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala between 2002 and 2005.

He has published widely, including Eritrea: The Making of a Nation, 1890-1991 (The Red Sea Press, 2007), 'Perilous Dualism: Language, religion and identity in poly-ethnic Eritrea' in Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (Zed Books, 2004), 'When Success Becomes a Liability: Challenges of State Building in Eritrea, 1991-2005 (African and Asian Studies, vol.6, no. 4, 2007).

His research interests are on political and development sociology, state, nation, nationalism, culture, identity, conflict, democratisation and governance