The main aim of this thesis is to analyze how Eritreas nationalism and Eritrean self image as a State, in pre and post independence, has been affecting Ethiopian politics. As specific objectives, it aims to find out the main reasons and factors why Ethiopian politics has been used as an instrument by the Eritrean elites to achieve their own political and economic interests. This thesis, hence, could be significant in showing how external interests injected and promoted the idea of independent Eritrea and how this later came to be the problem child of Ethiopia. it tried to asses, describe and...