ABSTRACT This article is a critical appraisal of the development and performance of two competing nationalisms – Ethiopian and ethnic nationalisms. It assesses why the current system espoused by ethnic politics is a danger to peaceful and harmonious co-existence and state survival and what should be done about it. It starts with the identification of a problem: if the Ethiopian version of federalism continues to be applied within the context of politicisation of ethnicity it will always be a source of ethnic hostility by generating ethnic grievances of real or perceived injustices. Both variants of nationalism are threats to the continuation of the state and the achievement of viable development. After a politico-historical comparative analysis based on observation and secondary data of Ethiopian nationalism (the thesis) and ethnic nationalism (the anti-thesis), a third individual based democratic Meritopianism (the synthesis) rooted in universal human values like individual rights rather than the politicisation of primordial identities is suggested.

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两种相互竞争的民族主义的去政治化和民主美利托邦主义的引入作为埃塞俄比亚的可能出路

摘要 本文是对两种相互竞争的民族主义——埃塞俄比亚民族主义和种族民族主义——的发展和表现的批判性评价。它评估了为什么当前由民族政治支持的制度对和平与和谐共处和国家生存构成威胁，以及应该怎么做。它从确定一个问题开始：如果埃塞俄比亚版本的联邦制继续在种族政治化的背景下应用，它将永远成为种族敌意的根源，因为它会产生真实或感知到的不公正的种族不满。民族主义的两种变体都对国家的延续和实现可行的发展构成威胁。