title: Small, stable, authoritarian? Assessing Eritrea's consistency in abusing media freedom
abstract: This chapter reviews the 23-year period of developments in both foreign and domestic policies in Eritrea with a focus on media control and aims to give a general overview of the main pillars, as well as discontent and perspectives, of upholding authoritarian rule in this country, with a view to implications for regional security and development. The emergence of Eritrea as an independent state in 1993 attracted the attention of both scholars and policymakers, as it presented a good real-time opp