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Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia: From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation book cover

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Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation

By Asnake Kefale, Tomasz Kamusella, Christophe Van der Beken Copyright 2021
162 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book is a contribution to the global history of the transfer of political ideas, as exemplified by the case of modern Ethiopia. Like many non-European nation-states, Ethiopia adopted a western model of statehood, that is, the nation-state. Unlike the postcolonial polities that have retained the mode of statehood imposed on them by their colonial powers, Ethiopia was never successfully... Read more

Introduction

1. The 1931 Constitution: The Importation of Western Concepts via Japan

2. From the Soviet Union to Ethiopia's Ethnoterritorial Federalism

Conclusion

Biography

Asnake Kefale is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Tomasz Kamusella is Reader (professor extraordinarius) in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK.

Christophe Van der Beken is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Federalism and Human Rights at Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

"The volume [is] an original contribution to scholarship, especially at a time when Ethiopia is increasingly of interest to international audiences."

Jan Erk, Leiden University, Netherlands

"[T]his book is very timely and capable of informing the [political] debates currently taking place in Ethiopia."

Zemelak Ayele, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

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