Editors: Abadir M. Ibrahim, Kokebe Wolde
Date published: December 2022
Publisher: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, Evanston
ISBN: 978-1-954984-07-03 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-954984-06-6 (pdf)
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Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract is available in the following formats:
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Chapters
Front Cover
Front Matter
Preface
Professor Thomas Geraghty
Download pp. xvii – xviii (preface).
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Geraghty, Thomas. “Preface.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, xvii-xviii. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Geraghty, Thomas. “Preface.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. xvii-xviii.
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Thomas Geraghty, “Preface,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), xvii-xviii.
Introduction
Dr. Abadir M. Ibrahim
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Ibrahim, Abadir M. “Introduction.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 1-6. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Ibrahim, Abadir M. “Introduction.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 1-6.
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Abadir M. Ibrahim, “Introduction,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 1-6.
Opening Remarks
Dr. Sossina M. Haile, Dr. Getachew Assefa Woldemariam
Part I: Recentering the Social Field as a Site of Politics
The Politics of the Social: Imagining a New Political Order in Ethiopia
Dr. Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw
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Asfaw, Semeneh Ayalew. “The Politics of the Social: Imagining a New Political Order in Ethiopia.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 11-54. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Asfaw, Semeneh Ayalew. “The Politics of the Social: Imagining a New Political Order in Ethiopia.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 11-54.
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Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, “The Politics of the Social: Imagining a New Political Order in Ethiopia,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 11-54.
Intergroup Conflicts and the Role of Emotions: The Need for and Importance of Empathy in Filling the Trust Deficit and Resolving Ethiopia’s Chronic Political Problems
Dr. Zelalem Mogessie Teferra
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Teferra, Zelalem Mogessie. “Intergroup Conflicts and the Role of Emotions: The Need for and Importance of Empathy in Filling the Trust Deficit and Resolving Ethiopia’s Chronic Political Problems.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 55-94. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Teferra, Zelalem Mogessie. “Intergroup Conflicts and the Role of Emotions: The Need for and Importance of Empathy in Filling the Trust Deficit and Resolving Ethiopia’s Chronic Political Problems.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 55-94.
BLUEBOOK
Zelalem Mogessie Teferra, “Intergroup Conflicts and the Role of Emotions: The Need for and Importance of Empathy in Filling the Trust Deficit and Resolving Ethiopia’s Chronic Political Problems,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 55-94.
Part II: Adopting Intersectionality in Constitutional Design
Women’s Rights and Ethiopia’s Future Social Contract: The Need to Adopt an Intersectional Approach
Dr. Tigist Shewarega Hussen and Teguadda Alebachew Sete
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Hussen, Tigist Shewarega, and Sete, Teguadda Alebachew. “Women’s Rights and Ethiopia’s Future Social Contract: The Need to Adopt an Intersectional Approach.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 95-114. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Hussen, Tigist Shewarega, and Sete, Teguadda Alebachew. “Women’s Rights and Ethiopia’s Future Social Contract: The Need to Adopt an Intersectional Approach.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 95-114.
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Tigist Shewarega Hussen and Sete, Teguadda Alebachew, “Women’s Rights and Ethiopia’s Future Social Contract: The Need to Adopt an Intersectional Approach,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 95-114.
A Dream Within a Dream: Minorities and Indigenous Peoples and Ethiopia’s Constitutional Moments
Dr. Abadir M. Ibrahim and Dr. Juweria Ali
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Ibrahim, Abadir M., and Juweria Ali. “A Dream Within a Dream: Minorities and Indigenous Peoples and Ethiopia’s Constitutional Moments.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 115-142. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Ibrahim, Abadir M., and Juweria Ali. “A Dream Within a Dream: Minorities and Indigenous Peoples and Ethiopia’s Constitutional Moments.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 115-142.
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Abadir M. Ibrahim and Juweria Ali, “A Dream Within a Dream: Minorities and Indigenous Peoples and Ethiopia’s Constitutional Moments,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 115-142.
Part III: Managing Diversity: Assessing the Present and Looking Ahead
A Federation Without Federal Credentials: When Politics Trumps Law
Dr. Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha
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Fessha, Yonatan Tesfaye. “A Federation Without Federal Credentials: When Politics Trumps Law.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 143-156. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Fessha, Yonatan Tesfaye. “A Federation Without Federal Credentials: When Politics Trumps Law.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 143-156.
BLUEBOOK
Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha, “A Federation Without Federal Credentials: When Politics Trumps Law,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 143-156.
The Four Faces of Ethiopian Federalism
Dr. Berihun Adugna Gebeye
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Gebeye, Berihun Adugna. “The Four Faces of Ethiopian Federalism.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 157-190. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Gebeye, Berihun Adugna. “The Four Faces of Ethiopian Federalism.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 157-190.
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Berihun Adugna Gebeye, “The Four Faces of Ethiopian Federalism,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 157-190.
The Unbearable Thinness of National Citizenship in a Country Organized as a “Nation of Nations”: The Case of Ethiopia
Prof. Dr. Adeno Addis
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Addis, Adeno. “The Unbearable Thinness of National Citizenship in a Country Organized as a ‘Nation of Nations’: The Case of Ethiopia.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 191-232. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Addis, Adeno. “The Unbearable Thinness of National Citizenship in a Country Organized as a ‘Nation of Nations’: The Case of Ethiopia.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 191-232.
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Adeno Addis, “The Unbearable Thinness of National Citizenship in a Country Organized as a ‘Nation of Nations’: The Case of Ethiopia,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 191-232.
Ethnic Federalism as a New State-Building Approach in Post-1991 Ethiopia: Its Pitfalls and the Way Forward
Dr. Mohammed Dejen Assen
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Assen, Mohammed Dejen. “Ethnic Federalism as a New State-Building Approach in Post-1991 Ethiopia: Its Pitfalls and the Way Forward.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 233-266. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Assen, Mohammed Dejen. “Ethnic Federalism as a New State-Building Approach in Post-1991 Ethiopia: Its Pitfalls and the Way Forward.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 233-266.
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Mohammed Dejen Assen, “Ethnic Federalism as a New State-Building Approach in Post-1991 Ethiopia: Its Pitfalls and the Way Forward,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 233-266.
Revising the Territorial Structure of the Ethiopian Federal System: A Good Idea?
Dr. Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele
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Ayele, Zemelak Ayitenew. “Revising the Territorial Structure of the Ethiopian Federal System: A Good Idea?” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 267-280. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Ayele, Zemelak Ayitenew. “Revising the Territorial Structure of the Ethiopian Federal System: A Good Idea?” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 267-280.
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Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele, “Revising the Territorial Structure of the Ethiopian Federal System: A Good Idea?” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 267-280.
Part IV: Considering Consociational Arrangements for Share Rule
Ethiopia’s Contested Federalism: How to Deal with Cleavages?
Prof. Dr. Assefa Fiseha
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Fiseha, Assefa. “Ethiopia’s Contested Federalism: How to Deal with Cleavages?” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 281-332. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Fiseha, Assefa. “Ethiopia’s Contested Federalism: How to Deal with Cleavages?” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 281-332.
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Assefa Fiseha, “Ethiopia’s Contested Federalism: How to Deal with Cleavages?” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 281-332.
Addressing Winner-Takes-All Politics in Ethiopia: Inclusive Majoritarianism through Liberal Consociationalism
Dr. Adem K. Abebe
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Abebe, Adem K. “Addressing Winner-Takes-All Politics in Ethiopia: Inclusive Majoritarianism through Liberal Consociationalism.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 333-354. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Abebe, Adem K. “Addressing Winner-Takes-All Politics in Ethiopia: Inclusive Majoritarianism through Liberal Consociationalism.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 333-354.
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Adem K. Abebe, “Addressing Winner-Takes-All Politics in Ethiopia: Inclusive Majoritarianism through Liberal Consociationalism,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 333-354.
Part V: Looking Back-and-to-the-Future to Break the Cycle of Political Unsettlement
The Continuing Quest for Inclusive Democratic Governance in Ethiopia
Dr. Getachew Assefa Woldemariam
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Woldemariam, Getachew Assefa. “The Continuing Quest for Inclusive Democratic Governance in Ethiopia.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 355-384. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Woldemariam, Getachew Assefa. “The Continuing Quest for Inclusive Democratic Governance in Ethiopia.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 355-384.
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Getachew Assefa Woldemariam, “The Continuing Quest for Inclusive Democratic Governance in Ethiopia,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 355-384.
Self-Alienation: Ethiopia’s Identity in Postcoloniality and its Implications for a Future Ethiopian Social Contract
Dr. Shimelis Mulugeta Kene
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Kene, Shimelis Mulugeta. “Self-Alienation: Ethiopia’s Identity in Postcoloniality and its Implications for a Future Ethiopian Social Contract.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 385-402. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Kene, Shimelis Mulugeta. “Self-Alienation: Ethiopia’s Identity in Postcoloniality and its Implications for a Future Ethiopian Social Contract.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 385-402.
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Shimelis Mulugeta Kene, “Self-Alienation: Ethiopia’s Identity in Postcoloniality and its Implications for a Future Ethiopian Social Contract,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 385-402.
Breaking the Dialectics of Political Unsettlement in Ethiopia
Dr. Semir Yusuf
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Yusuf, Semir. “Breaking the Dialectics of Political Unsettlement in Ethiopia.” In Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, 403-414. Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022.
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Yusuf, Semir. “Breaking the Dialectics of Political Unsettlement in Ethiopia.” Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022, pp. 403-414.
BLUEBOOK
Semir Yusuf, “Breaking the Dialectics of Political Unsettlement in Ethiopia,” in Between Failure and Redemption: The Future of the Ethiopian Social Contract, edited by Abadir M. Ibrahim and Kokebe Wolde (Evanston: Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern University Libraries, 2022), 403-414.