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Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia - From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation (Hardcover)
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Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia - From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
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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 colonized leaving its ruling elite free to select a
model of 'modern' (western) statehood. In 1931, via Japan, they
adopted the model of unitary, ethnolinguistically homogenous
nation-state, in turn copied by Tokyo in 1889 from the German
Empire (founded in 1871). Following the Ethiopian Revolution (1974)
that overthrew the imperial system, the new revolutionary elite
promised to address the 'nationality question' through the
marxist-leninist model. The Soviet model of ethnolinguistic
federalism (originally derived from Austria-Hungary) was introduced
in Ethiopia, first in 1992 and officially with the 1995
Constitution. To this day the politics of modern Ethiopia is marked
by the tension between these two opposed models of the essentially
central European type of statehood. The late 19th-century
'German-German' quarrel on the 'proper' model of national statehood
for Germany - or more broadly, modern central Europe - remains the
quarrel of Ethiopian politics nowadays. The book will be useful for
scholars of Ethiopian and African history and politics, and also
offers a case in comparative studies on the subject of different
models of national statehood elsewhere.
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