{"id":277815,"date":"2019-06-02T03:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T07:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiQ2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmphY29iaW5tYWcuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvZXRoaW9waWEtYWJpeS1haG1lZC1tZWxlcy16ZW5hd2nSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:19:12","slug":"jacobins-new-scramble-for-ethiopia-weighed-abiys-opening-against-old-developmental-state-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277815","title":{"rendered":"Jacobin\u2019s \u201cNew Scramble for Ethiopia\u201d weighed Abiy\u2019s opening against old developmental-state models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Jacobin published \u201cThe New Scramble for Ethiopia,\u201d an analysis that placed Abiy Ahmed\u2019s political opening against the earlier developmental-state model associated with Meles Zenawi and asked who would capture the country\u2019s next economic ordering.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jacobin\u2019s \u201cNew Scramble for Ethiopia\u201d weighed Abiy\u2019s opening against old developmental-state models\" \/>\n<p>Left and academic readers used the essay to debate liberalization, ethnic federalism, and foreign capital at a moment when Ethiopia looked newly open to investors and newly unstable at home.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics analysis archive, the Jacobin piece dates one influential socialist reading of Ethiopia\u2019s 2019 scramble.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2019\/06\/ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-meles-zenawi\">Jacobin<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Scramble for Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;Jacobin magazineEthiopia&#8217;s prime minister is making headlines as a Trudeau-like liberal reformer. But behind his progressive sheen, his economic policies are set to accelerate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1agT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755008,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277815\/revisions\/755008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}