Practical Challenges of Ethiopian Federalism

Deribie Demmeksa

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Abstract: This chapter assesses the main practical challenges confronting Ethiopia’s multinational federal order. It identifies tensions produced by territorialising identity—such as minorities living outside their titular states and recurring border disputes—and shows how these dynamics enable exclusionary politics and hardened national (ethnic) loyalties. The Chapter explains why the constitutional promise of self-determination remains only partially realised and describes how dominant-party control, weak liberal-democratic institutions, securitised inter-nation relations, uneven resource ownership, and fiscal grievances compound the strain on the federation’s cohesion. The Chapter concludes that Ethiopia’s federal experiment faces unresolved risks of conflict and disintegration, yet continues to persist through political interdependence, shared history, and economic linkages.

Date: 2018-10-08
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