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The Story of Ethiopian Governance: From a Centralized Public Service Monopoly to ‘Big Man’ Politics

Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe March 11, 2025

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Ethiopia: How it succumbed to ‘big man’ rule

Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe February 26, 2025

Africa Amhara EPRDF Ethiopia Governance Horn of Africa Oromo Political Marketplace

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Pathways to Peace in Sudan: November 2024

Alex de Waal November 13, 2024

Africa African Union Middle East Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo Political Marketplace Rapid Support Forces Red Sea Sudan

The price of politics: What the 2020 oil shocks in Nigeria teach us about transactional political...

Jared D. Miller October 15, 2024

New climate dis-economies: The political economy of energy transitions in fragile fossil fuel producers

Tarun Gopalakrishnan October 15, 2024

The new era of turbulence: Peacemaking trends in post-carbon times

Jan Pospisil October 15, 2024

The Coming Twilight of a Petrostate?

Shahla Al-Kli October 15, 2024

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Buying “Peace” in Sudan’s Political Marketplace

Justin Lynch August 7, 2024

Africa Political Marketplace Saudi Arabia Sudan UAE

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Precarity, and peace in the Horn of Africa

Aditya Sarkar July 31, 2024

Ethiopia Political Marketplace Precarity Somalia South Sudan Sudan

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Peacemaking, Precarity, and Accumulation by Dispossession in the Horn of Africa

Aditya Sarkar July 25, 2024

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