We are living in an age of greater uncertainty. The international system that emerged after the end of the Second World War (1945) as bipolar, transitioned into a unipolar one after the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s. The period of American hegemony (unipolarity), which emerged after the beginning of the 1990s, gave way to a multipolar order. The present change, characterised by the relative decline of US hegemony and the rise of major powers like China, a resurgent Russia, and middle powers such as Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has…
Asnake Kefale
Asnake Kefale
Asnake Kefale is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Addis Ababa University. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Leiden, an MA in international relations from the International University of Japan, and a BA from Addis Ababa University. His research focuses on Horn of Africa security, migration, ethnicity, and federalism. He co-edited Youth on the Move: Views from Below on Ethiopian International Migration (Hurst, 2021).
