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Eredità coloniali: il movimento indipendentista eritreo e il ruolo dell’Italia durante la federazione Eritrea-Etiopia
No full textThe official narrative underpinning Eritrea’s nation-building project describes the path toward independence in terms of the struggle against three uninterrupted colonial projects: the Italian, the British and the Ethiopian one. This article aims to provide more complexity to this picture by taking into account the evolution of the Italian foreign policy towards Eritrea in the first years of the Federation with Ethiopia (1952-1962). It looks in particular at the relationship between Rome and two prominent members of the independence bloc: Woldeab Woldemariam and Ibrahim Sultan. Archival sources from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Banca d’Italia, Banco di Roma, and the National Archives of the United Kingdom highlight an enduring Italian support to Eritrean opposition groups’ quest for autonomy against Ethiopian domination, though this position will gradually change in the second half of the decade
Il secolo della crescita? : le economie africane nell'arena globale
No full textLe rappresentazioni dell’Africa sono cambiate in maniera significativa negli ultimi anni, offrendo l’immagine di un continente in rapida trasformazione sotto il profilo economico e demografico. Il contributo si sofferma sulle opportunità offerte ai Paesi africani sul fronte dell’accesso ai mercati finanziari globali a seguito della diversificazione dell’arena dei donatori internazionali, interrogandosi sulle ricadute di queste trasformazioni sull’esercizio della sovranità statuale. Da ultimo, si sofferma sulle sfide del processo di industrializzazione e sull’ascesa di nuovi conglomerati multinazionali africani in settori tradizionalmente occupati da operatori economici extra-africani
The Border Dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea, c. 1998-2016
No full textThe chapter explores the political and economic roots of the border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritre
Terra e sviluppo nell’Etiopia imperiale: la dialettica tra forze della modernizzazione e autorità tradizionali nel Medio Awash
No full textThe article explores the conceptual categories adopted by development practitioners to frame the social reality of the Awash Valley, Ethiopia
A pragmatic high modernism? rural development and state building in the Ethiopian lowlands, c. 1960–2019.
No full textLarge scale agricultural projects driven by a high modernist ideology have been closely interlinked with the process of state building at the Ethiopian lowland frontier since the second half of the twentieth century. This paper provides a diachronic analysis of the political economy of agricultural development and the associated frontier effect in the western and north-eastern lowlands of the country across three different political regimes. A comparative assessment of these patterns suggests that the high modernist paradigm should be applied with some qualification to the agenda of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the coalition that ruled Ethiopia from 1994 to 2019. The EPRDF was far more pragmatic than its predecessors; the oscillation between different degrees of state intervention was based upon past experiences of success and failure in the territorialization of state power in contested borderlands
Competizione allo sviluppo. Armi, aiuti e diplomazia dell'Occidente nell'Etiopia di Hailé Selassié
No full textIl libro analizza l'arena political della cooperazione allo sviluppo nell'Etiopia imperiale, mettendo in luce le divisioni in seno alla comunità dei donatori "occidentali" e le strategie di manipolazione dell'aiuto da parte dei poteri africani
Il Nomos della Terra nel Bassopiano Etiopico
No full textIl capitolo descrive la connessione tra progetti di sviluppo agricolo e costruzione dello Stato nei bassopiani dell'Etiopia modern
Extraversion and development in Northwestern Ethiopia: the case of the Humera Agricultural project
No full textThe book chapter explores the hidden political objectives and unintended economic consequences of a World Bank-sponsored agricultural development project in imperial Ethiopia, in the contested north-western borderlands with Sudan
Salini: an Ethio-Italian story
No full textThe history of dam building and hydropower development in Ethiopia is deeply interwoven with the story of a particular construction company: Salini Costruttori. Started as an Italian family- owned company, Salini has been building dams and other infrastructure in Ethiopia since the 1960s, navigating different political regimes—Imperial Ethiopia, the Derg and the Federal Republic first under Meles Zenawi and later Hailemariam Dessalegn and Abiy Ahmed—and expanding its business to become a key partner of the Ethiopian Government in its most ambitious project so far: the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Ethiopia has been one of the strategic bases from which Salini surged to become a global top player in the infrastructure sector, particularly after the 2014 merger with another Italian firm, Impregilo, to form Salini Impregilo, rebranded WeBuild in 202
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