1st Edition
The Last Post-Cold War Socialist Federation Ethnicity, Ideology and Democracy in Ethiopia
By Semahagn Gashu Abebe
Copyright 2014
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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After the fall of the Berlin wall and the disintegration of the former USSR and Yugoslavia, it has widely been assumed that socialist federations have become a thing of the past. Ethiopia’s ethnic federal system however is essentially a socialist federal system based on the notion of the ’right to self-determination of nationalities’ and a Marxist-Leninist organization of the state and party. This... Read more
The Last Post-Cold War Socialist Federation
Biography
Dr Semahagn Gashu Abebe is a Research Scholar at the Institute of Human Rights, University of Connecticut, USA. He has widely published on federalism, constitutional law and human rights in the context of sub-Saharan Africa.
’A splendid analysis of the ideological principles of the TPLF/EPRDF that govern Ethiopia’s ethnic federalism. Semahagn lucidly explains the Marxist-inspired concepts of self-determination of nationalities, democratic centralism, revolutionary democracy, the development state model, and the party evaluation mechanism that are so facilely used to justify the FDRE Government’s glaring deficits of democracy and abuses of human rights.’ Theodore M. Vestal, Oklahoma State University, USA ’The book is a superb analysis of Ethiopian federalism. It elucidates how democratic centralism and development state model intertwined and operate as an ideology of legitimation. The book is a unique academic work that incorporates socialist federation which helps readers get insight into the ideological underpinnings of the TPLF/EPDRF notion of federalism. Dr Semahagn Gashu Abebe’s book is an excellent contribution to Ethiopian Studies.’ Solomon Gashaw, University of Minnesota-Morris, USA
