Senior Editors: Drs. Maimire Mennasemay, Alemayehu G/Mariam, Worku Negash and Alula Pankhurst
Editorial Director and Publisher: Elias Wondimu

Vol. III, No. 1
Winter/Spring 2007
ISSN: 1543-4133

ISBN: 10: 1-59907-024-3 | 13: 978-1-59907-024-7

International Journal of Ethiopian Studies (IJES) is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal dedicated to scholarly research relevant to or informed by the Ethiopian experience. IJES publishes two issues a year of original work in English and Amharic to readers around the world.

CONTENT:

1. Political Violence, Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Horn of Africa: Causes, Effects, Prospects. By Alem Hailu

2. የኢትዮጵያ ጊዜ ግንዛቤና ዘመናዊነት:: መሳይ ከበደ

3. Ethiopia, Japan, and Jamaica: A Century of Globally Linked Modernizations. By Donald N. Levine

4. Implications of the 2005 Elections for Ethiopian Citizenship and State Legitimacy. By Lahra Smith

5. The Ethiopian Voter: An Assessment of Economic and Ethnic Influences with Survey Data. By Leonardo R. Arriola

6. What Good is Technical Assistance? A problem illustrated with an example from Ethiopia. By Reidulf Molvaer

7. Ethiopian Noblemen Seated on a Royal Couch – and Dancing Girls at Däbrä Tabor: Saint Simonian Ethnographic Curiosities. By Richard Pankhurst

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“IJES will, for the first time, provide Ethiopian scholars with an Ethiopian venue for refl ecting seriously on Ethiopian issues from a scholarly perspective. As a number of philosophers have pointed out, one of the deepest obstacles to African (including Ethiopia) progress towards democracy and economic prosperity was the peculiar situation of Africans being reduced to an object of knowledge by contemporary social science and, consequently, the absence of Africans, including Ethiopians, as self-examining, self evaluating, self-defi ning, and self propelling subjects of history. As a result, we have been totally dependent on external (European and American) defi nitions, interpretations, explanations, evaluations of who we are and what our problems and their solutions are. IJES is an important step in breaking away from this objectifi cation of Ethiopia. It will provide a scholarly medium for Ethiopians to reclaim their subjectivity.”
Maimire Mennasemay, Professor at Dawson College