Answer to Question #221314 in Sociology for DANI

Question

1)Discuss similarities and differences between ethiopian foreign policy principles during the Dergue and EPRDF regimes?

Answer 1

similarities

In both, the pre-1974 and post-1974 administrations exploited economic and military help from their respective superpower backers to supplement their own scant material resources, improving the regime's capacity to pursue certain foreign policy goals and specific internal programs.

differences

In many ways, the leaders of post-revolutionary Ethiopia's foreign policy mirrored those of the former imperial state. Ethiopia's ideological orientation was one of the aspects that varied from one era to the next. Unlike Emperor Haile Selassie's administration, which leaned largely on American support, President Mengistu Haile Mariam's fate was decided by the Soviet Union.