Consequences of the Global War on Terror in the Horn of Africa Region

Abstract

This article seeks to examine the consequences of the global war on terror (GWT) in the Horn of Africa.The focus is on the various implications to individual countries and the region as a whole. It therefore,critically interrogates what the consequences are and how they manifested. The interplay between internaland external factors compounding the consequences are critically analysed. Militarisation in the service ofgeo-strategic and geopolitical interests through creation of division of states into friendly and non-friendlyand construction of unholy alliances hinders cooperation and regional integration. The politics of creationof pariah states, related to the GWT, engenders fragility, internal instability, and failed states. This in turnexposes societies to all sorts of pathologies, distorting the process of state and nation formation. The paperinterrogates these intertwined variables. The paper contends that the GWT aggravated the precarious stateof peace and stability in the Horn region causing far-reaching structural, political, social, economic, security,inter-state relation, integration and diplomatic damages still reverberating even after the GWT has beenjettisoned. The study of the consequences of the GWT still remains scanty. The paper hopes to contributeto the dearth of knowledge on the consequence of GWT