Globalization and State Autonomy
The Case of Ethiopia 1991–2018
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16850765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Solomon Ashagrie (0000-0002-6365-3899, Shanghai University), D Freeman (0000-0003-2683-8859, Shanghai University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 955-964 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1758-5880 • E-ISSN: 1758-5899 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1758-5899.70054 |
| OpenAlex | W4411455846 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 48 |
Critical scholars argue that African states ceded policy autonomy to global neoliberal forces through aid conditionality. This study investigates the Ethiopian state's relative autonomy amid globalization. Based on an analysis of archival materials, policy documents, and other sources, we argue that despite growing neoliberal influence since the 1990s, Ethiopia has managed to maintain a high degree of relative autonomy, overtly and covertly resisting neoliberal economic reforms in the 1990s and then openly choosing the ‘developmental state’ approach after 2005. We show that Ethiopia was able to do this due to its strategic significance to the West and because of China's emergence as an alternative financial source. We thus argue that the debate regarding globalization and state autonomy should take into account a wider range of factors than IFI conditionality
Autonomy · China · Conditionality · Development economics · Developmental state · Economic system · Economics · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
China 2030
China’s Power in Africa
Comparing US and Chinese Foreign Aid in the Era of Rising Powers
The West’s Teeth
Tanzania and the Imf
A critical look at Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’
US Military Aid and Recipient State Cooperation
The Developmental State Model in Ethiopia
Donor-driven’ neoliberal reform processes and urban environmental change in Kenya
China and Western Aid Norms in the Belt and Road
Conditionality and Path Dependence in Chinese Lending
Aid with Chinese characteristics’
Limits to Donor Influence
Post-war Ethiopia
Reconsidering the power of the IFIs
Governance Agenda for Sub-Saharan Africa Issues and Challenges
When it pays to be a ‘fragile state’
The Ethiopian developmental state
Capital Accumulation, Classes and the Relative Autonomy of the State
We Cannot Please Everyone”
Reconstructing the Ugandan state and economy
Neoliberal energy transitions in the South
Domestic actors and liberalization
Ideology and power in TPLF’s Ethiopia
Revolutionary Socialist Development in Ethiopia
The Politics of Economic Liberalization
State-Society Relations in Ethiopia
Fake capitalism? The dynamics of neoliberal moral restructuring and pseudo-development
Structure, agency and Africa in the international system
The United States and Africa
Africa and the New Globalization
Neocolonialism and Neoliberalism in South Africa and Zambia
Managing Sovereignty
The challenge of consensus building
The aspiring developmental state and business associations in Ethiopia - (dis-)embedded autonomy
A Shadow of the Real Thing
From Antagonistic Autonomy to Relational Autonomy
Aid negotiation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |