The populations of Russia, Central Asia, and China have unique demographic features that pose special theoretical and applied problems. The essays in this dissertation explore different associated phenomena directly and indirectly related to central planning, including famine, u…
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Despite a modern agricultural surplus relative to humanity's food needs and established means of transport, famine remains a threat for several states around the world. It would seem obvious that famine would be a strong destabilizing force, but this has not always been the case…
In the last decade, the region of Darfur, Western Sudan, like other parts of the African continent, has been exposed to waves of dry seasons that affected its farming system by transforming its fertile lands into an enormous desert. People starved to death, some of them fled to …
This dissertation fills the theoretical gap in comparative administrative studies describing political turbulence. It examines how Ethiopia's public administrative system operated in a turbulent socio-political environment characterized by recurrent civil/ethnic wars, famines an…
Interpretations of the causes of famine vary according to the political philosophy or to be more implicit the political ideology of the observer. This study explored the various interpretations and perceptions of famine along the spectrum of ideologies. These include classical e…
The dissertation examines famine in Ethiopia as an issue in U.S.-Ethiopian relations from 1950 to 1991. It argues that to avoid restructuring Ethiopia's semi-feudal society, and to make military security the primary goal of its foreign relations, the Imperial Ethiopian Governmen…
This dissertation combines ethnographic, interview, and documentary data gathered in Ethiopia to analyze famine early warning systems--large-scale information systems bringing together climate, food production, market, and public health data, which have become a major focus in i…
In Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia the connection to water is intertwined with culture and history. It cannot fully be captured by game theory based on the assumption of strategic action. Neither perceived threats to national security nor do fundamental value conflicts allow for ‘rat…
The dissertation is a study of a major and complex problem of our time: drought and famine compounded by the civil strife in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian-Eritrean war. Without studying the nationality movements in Ethiopia and the war of liberation in Eritrea, one can hardly grasp…