World Politics Review published on 1 June 2021 a commentary titled "Eritrea Goes from Pariah State to Regional Powerbroker" by Tanja Muller, University of Manchester.
The author concludes that in the last three years, Eritrea has gone from being an international pariah state to an increasingly visible and influential regional power broker in the Horn of Africa. Beginning in 2018, with its normalization of diplomatic relations with Ethiopia and Somalia, and more recently with its military assistance to Ethiopia in Tigray Region, the secretive, dictatorial state has broken out of the isolation it previously faced.
