John Markakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 179503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Markakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Markakis |
| SIGNATURE | MARKAKIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Crete |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Land and the State in Ethiopia
The Revolution and the Scholars
This is a review of scholarly interpretations of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution and its aftermath, that is, the regime it brought to power. It covers studies written during the life of that regime by Ethiopian and foreign scholars, and focuses on their interpretation rather than description, and specifically on their views on certain key issues. These include the nature of the imperial regime and the causes of its collapse; the protagonists in the…
The fate of Sudan: The origins and consequences of a flawed peace process
Peace is more than cessation of military hostilities, more than simple political stability. Peace is the presence of justice, and peace-building entails addressing all factors and forces that stand
Amanda KAY MCVETY. Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia
One wonders if the title of Amanda Kay McVety's book ought not to have ended with a question mark, since the work itself questions if “enlightenment” is indeed the principal ingredient in this affair, and goes on to argue at length that, in fact, it comes a poor second to U.S. foreign policy concerns regarding Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in general. Nowadays, it would be hard to find any knowledgeable person who would dispute this fact, and o…
War and the politics of identity in Ethiopia: The making of enemies and allies in the Horn of Africa
The horn of conflict
Nearly twenty years ago, the editorial of ROAPE's first special issue (No. 30, 1984) on the Horn of Africa opened with the sombre comment: ‘Manifold, violent social conflict is the hallmark of contemporary history in the Horn of Africa.’ Civil wars were raging then in Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. The latter two states had fought their second war a few years earlier, and relations between them were extremely hostile. Each was patronised and armed …
Anatomy of a conflict: Afar & Ise Ethiopia
Bloodshed at Galalu 23 March 2002: Dawn came that day to find a group of about thirty Afar warriors lying in ambush alongside the road to Djibouti. Newly re-surfaced, Ethiopia's sole link to the sea cuts a straight dark line through the desiccated Alligedhi plain. No vehicles were on the road at that early hour. Lorry drivers avoid night travel, preferring to spend evenings in the shantytowns that dot the road, where they find food, drink and wom…
Resource Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa
M. A. Mohamed Salih and John Markakis(eds), Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa.Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998, 208 pp., £18.95 (SEK 200, US $26.95), ISBN 91 7106 418 4. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Horn of Africa
Both nationalism and ethnicity have earned the attention of social scientists because of their political prominence. The discussion here focuses specifically on the role of these two closely related, and often confused, phenomena in struggles for power. The state is at the centre of such struggles, whose bone of contention is, more often than not, access to state-controlled resources. Not infrequently, conflict is the result, particularly where r…
Pastoralists & politicians in Kenya
(1999). Pastoralists & politicians in Kenya. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 26, No. 80, pp. 293-296
The Somali in Ethiopia
(1996). The Somali in Ethiopia. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 23, No. 70, pp. 567-570
The Horn of Africa
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Eritrea's national charter
The Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) held its Third Congress in February 1994. It was an important occasion, a watershed marking the end of the military struggle and the start of the political process to fashion the state of Eritrea. The Congress adopted a National Charter depicting the Front's vision of Eritrea's future, and sought to define the role of the EPLF in it. The Front renamed itself the Peoples Front for Democracy and Justice…
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Society and state in crisis: What went wrong in Somalia
(1994). Society and state in crisis: what went wrong in Somalia? Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 21, No. 59, pp. 82-88
The Somali in the new political order of Ethiopia
(1994). The Somali in the new political order of Ethiopia. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 21, No. 59, pp. 71-79
Eritrea: The transitional period
I had not seen Asmara since the late 1960s, and my first impression on a recent visit in May 1993 was of a city that had changed hardly at all in the interval. The Eritrean nationalists wisely avoided turning Asmara into a battleground, sparing it the wholesale destruction suffered by Massawa in the fighting and subsequent Ethiopian bombing raids. Asmara retains the neatness, orderliness, and quaint charm of the colonial town lovingly built by th…
Ethiopia: The Fifteenth Year of the Revolution
National and Class Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Nationalities and the state in Ethiopia
(1989). Nationalities and the state in Ethiopia. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 118-130
Christopher Clapham, Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia
Journal Article Christopher Clapham, Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia Get access Christopher Clapham, Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia. Cambridge University Press, 1988. xxviii+284. £25 hardback. ISBN 0521 334411. Mulatu Wubneh and Yohannis Abate, Ethiopia: Transition and development in the Horn of Africa, Westview Press, Boulder, Col., 1988. xv+224. £15 hardback. ISBN 0 86531 426 8. JOHN MARKAKIS JOH…
The Nationalist Revolution in Eritrea
Now in its third decade, the nationalist revolution in Eritrea is Africa's longest conflict, and one whose nature is often misunderstood by friend and foe alike. Its supporters see it as an anti-colonial campaign, the same as that waged by people elsewhere for independence. Certainly, colonialism has something to do with it, since Eritrea itself was its creation. However, Eritrean nationalism did not emerge as a reaction to the colonial situation…
National and Class Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Class and revolution in Ethiopia
The following are extracts from a book‐length manuscript of the same title to be published later this year by RAPE. The book is dedicated to the ‘brave youth of Ethiopia’ many of whom, including Nega Ayele himself, have been butchered by the Mengistu regime. These extracts trace the rise of Mengistu and the development of the opposition to the military dictatorship which he now leads, spearheaded by the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Party (EPRP…
Anatomy of a conflict: Afar & Ise Ethiopia
Bloodshed at Galalu 23 March 2002: Dawn came that day to find a group of about thirty Afar warriors lying in ambush alongside the road to Djibouti. Newly re-surfaced, Ethiopia's sole link to the sea cuts a straight dark line through the desiccated Alligedhi plain. No vehicles were on the road at that early hour. Lorry drivers avoid night travel, preferring to spend evenings in the shantytowns that dot the road, where they find food, drink and wom…
Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa
M. A. Mohamed Salih and John Markakis(eds), Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa.Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998, 208 pp., £18.95 (SEK 200, US $26.95), ISBN 91 7106 418 4. - Volume 70 Issue 1
The Nationalist Revolution in Eritrea
Now in its third decade, the nationalist revolution in Eritrea is Africa's longest conflict, and one whose nature is often misunderstood by friend and foe alike. Its supporters see it as an anti-colonial campaign, the same as that waged by people elsewhere for independence. Certainly, colonialism has something to do with it, since Eritrea itself was its creation. However, Eritrean nationalism did not emerge as a reaction to the colonial situation…
Ethiopia: Anatomy of a Traditional Polity
The Somali in Ethiopia
(1996). The Somali in Ethiopia. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 23, No. 70, pp. 567-570
Society and state in crisis: What went wrong in Somalia
(1994). Society and state in crisis: what went wrong in Somalia? Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 21, No. 59, pp. 82-88
The Somali in the new political order of Ethiopia
(1994). The Somali in the new political order of Ethiopia. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 21, No. 59, pp. 71-79
The military state and Ethiopia's path to ‘socialism’
This paper describes the course of Ethiopia's revolution since 1974 and the problems inherent in attempting to build socialism from above, through the agency of the military. The collapse of Haile Selassie's absolutist empire followed, and encouraged a groundswell of mass demands for the amelioration of numerous class, regional and other experiences of exploitation and oppression. Although these interests were represented within the army that too…
Pastoralists & politicians in Kenya
(1999). Pastoralists & politicians in Kenya. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 26, No. 80, pp. 293-296
Representative Institutions in Ethiopia
Representative institutions are a feature of political systems everywhere. The political systems of the new states that have emerged since World War II are no exception. Despite the far-reaching changes made by them in the institutions bequeathed by their colonial masters, they have almost everywhere retained, albeit with significant modifications, the representative assembly
The fate of Sudan: The origins and consequences of a flawed peace process
Peace is more than cessation of military hostilities, more than simple political stability. Peace is the presence of justice, and peace-building entails addressing all factors and forces that stand
The horn of conflict
Nearly twenty years ago, the editorial of ROAPE's first special issue (No. 30, 1984) on the Horn of Africa opened with the sombre comment: ‘Manifold, violent social conflict is the hallmark of contemporary history in the Horn of Africa.’ Civil wars were raging then in Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. The latter two states had fought their second war a few years earlier, and relations between them were extremely hostile. Each was patronised and armed …
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Eritrea's national charter
The Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) held its Third Congress in February 1994. It was an important occasion, a watershed marking the end of the military struggle and the start of the political process to fashion the state of Eritrea. The Congress adopted a National Charter depicting the Front's vision of Eritrea's future, and sought to define the role of the EPLF in it. The Front renamed itself the Peoples Front for Democracy and Justice…
Social Formation and Political Adaptation in Ethiopia
Up to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Ethiopia remained essentially what it had been for centuries - a highly isolated, thoroughly traditional, fervently Christian kingdom. During the closing decades of the last century, the kingdom was greatly enlarged through a vast territorial expansion southwards which created the Ethiopian empire as it is today, and established the Christian Ethiopians as the dominant group within the heterogeneo…
The Organisation of African Unity: A Progress Report
The Organisation of African Unity is now three years old. In view of the nature of both its scope and its goals, it would obviously be premature to attempt an evaluation of this organisation at such an early stage. On the other hand, the O.A.U. has grown precociously since its birth in May 1963, and the time is ripe for a description of its rapidly multiplying organs, and for some preliminary observations of the multifarious activity in which the…
The Organisation of African Unity: A Progress Report
The Organisation of African Unity is now three years old. In view of the nature of both its scope and its goals, it would obviously be premature to attempt an evaluation of this organisation at such an early stage. On the other hand, the O.A.U. has grown precociously since its birth in May 1963, and the time is ripe for a description of its rapidly multiplying organs, and for some preliminary observations of the multifarious activity in which the…
Representative Institutions in Ethiopia
Representative institutions are a feature of political systems everywhere. The political systems of the new states that have emerged since World War II are no exception. Despite the far-reaching changes made by them in the institutions bequeathed by their colonial masters, they have almost everywhere retained, albeit with significant modifications, the representative assembly
An Interpretation of Political Tradition in Ethiopia
Social Formation and Political Adaptation in Ethiopia
Up to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Ethiopia remained essentially what it had been for centuries - a highly isolated, thoroughly traditional, fervently Christian kingdom. During the closing decades of the last century, the kingdom was greatly enlarged through a vast territorial expansion southwards which created the Ethiopian empire as it is today, and established the Christian Ethiopians as the dominant group within the heterogeneo…
Ethiopia: Anatomy of a Traditional Polity
Class and revolution in Ethiopia
The following are extracts from a book‐length manuscript of the same title to be published later this year by RAPE. The book is dedicated to the ‘brave youth of Ethiopia’ many of whom, including Nega Ayele himself, have been butchered by the Mengistu regime. These extracts trace the rise of Mengistu and the development of the opposition to the military dictatorship which he now leads, spearheaded by the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Party (EPRP…
Garrison Socialism: The Case of Ethiopia
Revolution and Publication: Ethiopia since 1974
The military state and Ethiopia's path to ‘socialism’
This paper describes the course of Ethiopia's revolution since 1974 and the problems inherent in attempting to build socialism from above, through the agency of the military. The collapse of Haile Selassie's absolutist empire followed, and encouraged a groundswell of mass demands for the amelioration of numerous class, regional and other experiences of exploitation and oppression. Although these interests were represented within the army that too…
Radical military regimes in the horn of Africa
Famine and politics in the Horn of Africa
The attention of the media has in recent years focused on the Horn of Africa as an area blighted by famine. John Markakis attempts to analyse the political responses of the Sudanese and Ethiopian regimes to the famine, the contradictions in their policies and their lack of impact on the underlying problems. He looks particularly at the dilemmas faced by subsistence farmers in the area, as opposed to the urban dwellers who control political power
The Nationalist Revolution in Eritrea
Now in its third decade, the nationalist revolution in Eritrea is Africa's longest conflict, and one whose nature is often misunderstood by friend and foe alike. Its supporters see it as an anti-colonial campaign, the same as that waged by people elsewhere for independence. Certainly, colonialism has something to do with it, since Eritrea itself was its creation. However, Eritrean nationalism did not emerge as a reaction to the colonial situation…
Nationalities and the state in Ethiopia
(1989). Nationalities and the state in Ethiopia. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 118-130
Christopher Clapham, Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia
Journal Article Christopher Clapham, Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia Get access Christopher Clapham, Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia. Cambridge University Press, 1988. xxviii+284. £25 hardback. ISBN 0521 334411. Mulatu Wubneh and Yohannis Abate, Ethiopia: Transition and development in the Horn of Africa, Westview Press, Boulder, Col., 1988. xv+224. £15 hardback. ISBN 0 86531 426 8. JOHN MARKAKIS JOH…
National and Class Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Ethiopia: The Fifteenth Year of the Revolution
Eritrea: The transitional period
I had not seen Asmara since the late 1960s, and my first impression on a recent visit in May 1993 was of a city that had changed hardly at all in the interval. The Eritrean nationalists wisely avoided turning Asmara into a battleground, sparing it the wholesale destruction suffered by Massawa in the fighting and subsequent Ethiopian bombing raids. Asmara retains the neatness, orderliness, and quaint charm of the colonial town lovingly built by th…
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Society and state in crisis: What went wrong in Somalia
(1994). Society and state in crisis: what went wrong in Somalia? Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 21, No. 59, pp. 82-88
The Somali in the new political order of Ethiopia
(1994). The Somali in the new political order of Ethiopia. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 21, No. 59, pp. 71-79
Eritrea's national charter
The Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) held its Third Congress in February 1994. It was an important occasion, a watershed marking the end of the military struggle and the start of the political process to fashion the state of Eritrea. The Congress adopted a National Charter depicting the Front's vision of Eritrea's future, and sought to define the role of the EPLF in it. The Front renamed itself the Peoples Front for Democracy and Justice…
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
The Somali in Ethiopia
(1996). The Somali in Ethiopia. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 23, No. 70, pp. 567-570
The Horn of Africa
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
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