State Formation And Criteria For Statehood In The Ethiopian Federation

The idea of Federalism is understood as organizing states into at least two layers of governmentrnin order to realize self-rule and shared-rule among national and sub-national governments. Withrnregard to forming sub-national states that constitutes the federation; geographic location,rnhistorical root, cultural association, ethno-linguistic or national identity might be the organizingrnelement for the federation. When the formerly unitary multi-national state is to be devolved tornform federal system of government, like in the case of Ethiopia, the very difficult questionrnimmediately comes in to picture is on what bases the sub-unit state that forms the federation isrnorganized. This is a tricky challenge which faces every multi-national state that tries to establishrnthe federation. Once the organizing element is selected the next challenge is to determine therncriteria for those who able to form the sub-unit state since it is almost impossible or very difficultrnto grant a sub-unit state for each and every nationality in the federation. The purpose of thisrnthesis is to explore this issue in the context of Ethiopian federalism.

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