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Show 62 conflict, caveats and if secessionism is not hardly met are in practice, an issue" (Klitgaard 1991, these the substance of the argument is that however intense interethnic conflicts may be, it is better that they be played the central level, because the 213).32 Although p. damage to out at the local level than at economy of the latter is by far greater than that of the former. Others argue that the ethnic federal system is based on an incorrect Engedayehu puts new to map, any forcing people some federalism is the "Regardless for disaster, because it is country had gone through. of the rationale behind the Ethiopia other than would be tantamount Ethiopian nationhood, that, does not exist in the minds of the of their ethnic now majority backgrounds" (Engedayehu 1997, argue that the theoretical foundation for EPRDF's including secession." underlines this 'nationhood,' imagined terms, Ethiopians, irrespective Moreover, as: that would create ethnic enclaves in to believe in or recipe of the conflicts that the his distaste for the system policy whether in real understanding a policy p. of 217). of ethnic defunct Stalinist-Leninist notion of "self-determination up to and A long-time point when student of Ethiopian politics and history, Ottaway she writes: The TPLF found its inspiration in Lenin's approach to "the problem of the nationalities" and in the Soviet model of ethnic federalism. Paradoxically, the system was failing in the Soviet Union just when it was being replicated in Ethiopia. Lenin advocated the right of nationalities to self determination, 32 to the point of radical students and later as first as was in power, even however, and so did the Tigreans leaders of the TPLF. Once the TPLF self-determination for all nationalities had little secession, Along similar lines, Donald L. Horowitz writes: "Where groups are territorially concentrated, devolution utility, not because it provides 'self-determination,' but because, once power is devolved, it may have becomes somewhat more difficult to determine who the self is." (quoted in Klitgaard 1991, p. 213) |
