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Title:Beneath International Famine Relief in Ethiopia: The United States, Ethiopia, and the Debate over Relief Aid, Development Assistance, and Human Rights
Author:Kissi, EdwardISNI
Year:2005
Periodical:African Studies Review
Volume:48
Issue:2
Period:September
Pages:111-132
Language:English
Geographic terms:Ethiopia
United States
Subjects:humanitarian assistance
human rights
international relations
famine
Development and Technology
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Health and Nutrition
Politics and Government
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v048/48.2kissi.pdf
Abstract:This article analyses the conflicting interpretations of famine, relief aid, development assistance, and human rights by the Ethiopian and American governments, and the complexity of each government's policy and motives. It argues that in the 1970s and 1980s, the Carter and Reagan administrations faced the moral and political dilemma of assisting people in Ethiopia who were in desperate need without strengthening the hostile Ethiopian government in the process. And the government of Ethiopia had to make the difficult choice of accepting American aid on American terms at a period in Ethiopian history when doing so was politically suicidal. That America provided the aid and Ethiopia accepted it exemplifies the conduct of international relations in which human dignity compels nations to accommodate one another even within the boundaries of their mutual antagonism. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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