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Trade Makes States highlights how trade and the circulation of
goods are central to Somali societies, economies and politics.
Drawing on multi-site research from across East Africa's
Somali-inhabited economic space--which includes areas of Kenya,
Djibouti, Uganda and Ethiopia--this volume highlights the
interconnection between trade and state-building after state
collapse. It scrutinises the 'politics of circulation' between
competing public administrations, which seek to generate revenue
and to control infrastructures along major trade corridors.
Connecting classic debates on state formation with recent
scholarship on logistics and cross-border trading, Trade Makes
States argues that the facilitation and capture of commodity flows
have been instrumental in making and unmaking states across the
Somali territories. Aspiring state-builders are thus confronted
with the challenge of governing the flow of goods in order to rule
over lands and peoples. The contributors to this volume draw
attention to the ingenuities of transnational Somali markets, which
often appear to be self-governed. Their dynamism and everyday
administration by a host of actors provide important insights into
contemporary state formation on the margins of global supply-chain
capitalism.
This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the
transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of
multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991.
Decentralization, attempted democratization via ethno-national
representation, and partial economic liberalization have
reconfigured Ethiopian society and state in the past two decades.
Yet, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, 'democracy' in
Ethiopia has not changed the authority structures and the culture
of centralist decision-making of the past. The political system is
tightly engineered and controlled from top to bottom by the ruling
Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
Navigating between its 1991 announcements to democratise the
country and its aversion to power-sharing, the EPRDF has
established a de facto one-party state that enjoys considerable
international support. This ruling party has embarked upon a
technocratic 'developmental state' trajectory ostensibly aimed at
'depoliticizing' national policy and delegitimizing alternative
courses. The contributors analyze the dynamics of authoritarian
state-building, political ethnicity, electoral politics and
state-society relations that have marked the Ethiopian polity since
the downfall of the socialist Derg regime. Chapters on ethnic
federalism, 'revolutionary democracy', opposition parties, the
press, the judiciary, state-religion, and state-foreign donor
relations provide the most comprehensive and thought-provoking
review of contemporary Ethiopian national politics to date. This
book is based on a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African
Studies.
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