Why do strong opposition party organizations emerge in some democratizing countries,
while those in others remain weak or quickly fragment on ethnic lines? From Protest to …

This article assesses political developments in Ethiopia after its 2005 federal and regional
watershed elections. Although an unprecedented liberalisation took place ahead of the …

Conflict studies are a burgeoning new field of academic research, reflecting the persistence
of communal disputes and violent confrontations in the postmodern world. Indeed, in the …

This book examines the impact of the federal restructuring of Ethiopia on ethnic conflicts.
The adoption of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia was closely related with the problem of …

This article addresses current crises of governance in Ethiopia. Internal conflicts within the
ruling coalition arise from its origins in a localised insurgency and its flawed capacity to …

In multi-ethnic Ethiopia, diversity has been a serious obstacle to statebuilding. In fact, the
process of state-building has been chequered with ethnic tensions, squabbles and conflicts …

In 1991, Ethiopia's new leaders established a multiethnic federation that provides for the
right to secession. The secession clause was incorporated for reasons of ideology and …

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 …

Ideally, elections should peacefully allocate political power and remove bad leaders from
office. We study how the electoral mechanism performs when the government can rig …

Migration processes are often explained in economic terms both at the level of aspiration
and capability. This is reflected in the claim that people migrate because of an absolute or …