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Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, and a contributing editor at Boston Review.

Articles

Maaza Mengiste’s novels reject grand narratives, instead offering uncommonly intimate glimpses of what it was like to live through the century of war and dictatorship that created today’s Ethiopian diaspora.
Adom Getachew

The UN's “responsibility to protect” framework has failed to achieve a just international order. The Caribbean movement for reparations points the way forward.

Adom Getachew

In the 1970s, a bloc of Third World states forced the United Nations to take seriously the unequal distribution of global wealth. Could their example inspire a new generation?

Adom Getachew

Forums

A political appeal to “the people” is a central element of democratic societies. Can we imagine a revitalized, multiracial populist politics today?

Adom Getachew

Forum Responses

How do we actually build the institutions Rana wants?
Adom Getachew

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