外部干预与索马里-埃塞俄比亚边界争端

The External Intervention and the Somali-Ethiopian Boundary Dispute

索马里自独立以来就陷入与埃塞俄比亚的边界争端中。尽管两国边界争端有国内政治、经济方面的原因,但争端的祸根在于欧洲殖民国家在非洲的争夺及其对"大索马里主义"的鼓动和纵容,而美国和苏联在东非地区的争夺则为两国边界争端演变为长期的全面战争提供了条件。在1964年和1977年索马里和埃塞俄比亚的两次边界冲突中,非洲地区力量(包括非统和部分国家)和域外大国以不同形式进行了外部干预,其结果却截然不同。这一历史事实表明,非洲的边界争端问题需要非洲国家内部自主来解决,而外部势力别有用心地介入不仅无助于问题的解决,反而可能使事态进一步恶化,从而使争端当事国成为大国利益的牺牲品。

Somali was stuck in the boundary dispute with Ethiopia since its independenceThough the two countries’domestic politics and their consideration on economic interests were certain stimulus to the outbreak of war,the scourge of the boundary dispute were European imperial countries’scrambling for sphere of influence in the Horn of Africa and the prevailing of the Greater Somalia Idea instigated by some European countriesThe Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States in East Africa facilitated the boundary dispute developing into a long-lasting full scale warThe different actions of the intraregional organization and the extraterritorial powers in the two boundary wars resulted in different outcomes,which demonstrated that the external intervention with ulterior motives in the boundary dispute might deteriorate the situation,and finally make the disputed countries fall victim to the power’s interests.