Living in the New Geopolitics

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Living in the New Geopolitics

Located in the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa and Red sea arena Ethiopia became the epicenter for hegemonic and counter-hegemonic global and regional competition. The return of geopolitics, the rise of populist tendencies, the new cold war and the emerging complex multi-polar world significantly being felt in the Horn of Africa and particularly in Ethiopia. The polarized elitists’ politics seemingly feeding into this complex global and regional geopolitics.

Is “Ethiopia in a Geopolitical Crisis”?

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Is “Ethiopia in a Geopolitical Crisis”?

By Kalkidan Mulu Bitew*

Ethiopia has been referred to as being in “transition” for the past four years due to major reforms within the ruling party and the appointment of the current Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali (PhD). The “transition” can be defined as a time of dynamic changes and critical events in which we have passed through many social, economic, and political changes.