Abkhazia Institute for Social and Economic Research

A Thesis

Presented to

The Faculty of the Department of Political Science

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Masters of Arts

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Abstract

     Ethiopia has been a scene of conflicts in which, on numerous occasions, the world’s great powers have participated.

The involvement of superpowers, which at times even switched sides during the height of the struggle, exacerbated Ethiopia’s attempts to counter many ethnic separatist movements and somehow assure its survival.  However, the Soviet Union’s massive and unanticipated intrusion on the side of Ethiopia drew the entire area into the new violent vortex.