{"id":3911,"date":"2019-01-04T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2019-01-04T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T05:00:02","slug":"the-trouble-with-ethiopias-ethnic-federalism-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=3911","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble With Ethiopia&#8217;s Ethnic Federalism NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reforms by the country\u2019s new prime minister are clashing with its flawed Constitution and could push the country toward an interethnic conflict.<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0Mahmood Mamdani<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The Trouble With Ethiopia\u2019s Ethnic Federalism\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F01%2F03%2Fopinion%2Fethiopia-abiy-ahmed-reforms-ethnic-conflict-ethnic-federalism.html#?secret=4sUWq8lJrA\" data-secret=\"4sUWq8lJrA\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 1994 Constitution, introduced by Prime Minister\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/22\/world\/africa\/meles-zenawi-ethiopian-leader-dies-at-57.html?module=inline\">Meles Zenawi\u00a0<\/a>and the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/horn-africa\/ethiopia\/ethiopia-ethnic-federalism-and-its-discontents\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front<\/a>\u00a0governing coalition, recast the country from a centrally unified republic to a federation of nine regional ethnic states and two federally administered city-states. It bases key rights \u2014 to land, government jobs, representation in local and federal bodies \u2014 not on Ethiopian citizenship but on being considered ethnically indigenous in constituent ethnic states&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>In a way it replicated the British system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reforms by the country\u2019s new prime minister are clashing with its flawed Constitution and could push the country toward an interethnic conflict. By\u00a0Mahmood Mamdani The 1994 Constitution, introduced by Prime Minister\u00a0Meles Zenawi\u00a0and the\u00a0Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front\u00a0governing coalition, recast the country from a centrally unified republic to a federation of nine regional ethnic states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}