Ethiopia’s Policy towards the AU: Time to look beyond unique contributions and special responsibilities

Dr. iur. Mehari Taddele Maru and Abel Abate http://addisstandard.com/ethiopias-policy-towards-the-au-time-to-look-beyond-unique-contributions-special-responsibilities/ Ethiopia’s Pan-African positions promoted by the three regimes were equally solid, nevertheless, their policies foundations and ambitions in relation to the AU were unambiguously divergent. While the regimes of Emperor Haile Selassie and Colonel Mengistu were outward looking and excessively externalized Ethiopia’s internal problems, the current regime ...

Ethiopia’s Ad hoc AU Policy

This is an abridged version of a forthcoming longer and more substantive article, which will be published as a chapter of a book in 2015 by Zed publishers. Ethiopia’s absence of a long-term and substantive policy toward the African Union (AU) has resulted in a missed opportunity to play a more robust role and well-formulated ...