• Tadie Degie Yigzaw(PhD)
• Bahir Dar University
• Department of Political Science and International Studies
•  Email: degietadie@gmail.com
• Date of Birth: 11 September, 1989 Sex: Male
• Citizenship: Ethiopian Marital Status: Married
• Private Address: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia,
•  P.O. Box: -79 
• Cell Phone: (251)-921-56-81-77

Educational Background

1. PhD in Political Science at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, Bahir
Dar University, Ethiopia, on 9 May, 2024

• Title of the dissertation: Military Intervention in the Horn of Africa: Kenya’s and Ethiopia’s
  Security Engagement in Somalia
• Advisor of the dissertation: Professor Kidane Mengisteab, the Pennsylvania State University,
  USA

• Date of PhD Award: 9 May, 2024

  2. MA in Philosophy at Addis Ababa University, with great distinction of (CGPA: 3.88), on 8 July, 2014

• Title of Thesis: The Political Program of Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince and the Discourses on Livy
  Advisor of the thesis: Dr. Dagnachew Asefa, Addis Ababa University

  3. B.A Civics and Ethical Education minor in Geography, Dilla University, Ethiopia, with distinction
  (CGPA: 3.68) on 15 September, 2010

• Thesis: Politics and Morality in the Ethiopian Political System: The Case of the EPRDF regime
• Advisor of the thesis: Tesfaye Mekonnen

Academic Experience
1. Assistant lecturer from 15 September, 2010 to 7 July, 2014 1
2. Lecturer from 8 July, 2014 up to 8 May, 2024.
3. Assistant Professor from 9 May, 2024 up to now.

Training Experience:
1. Associate Trainer of Ethics and Corruption for Ethiopian Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, Since 8 September, 2024.
2. Participating in the training of Federal Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission from 29 February, 2016-9 March, 2016.
3. Training Dilla University Students on the issue of “the relevance of Ethics in tackling corruption” which
is organized by Federal Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission in collaboration with Dilla University in
26 January, 2016.
4. Training Dilla University selected higher Administrative and academic staffs on the Issue of “The implication of Ethics and Professional Ethics in Addressing maladministration” which is organized by
Dilla University, Quality Assurance Office from 29 December, 2016 – 1 January, 2017.
5. Training Bahir Dar University Social Sciences and Humanities Students on the 8 th of June 2019 on the
topic of “intercultural Dialogue and Peacebuilding among Bahir Dar University Students".
6. Training Amhara National Regional States police commission members’ on22-23- June, 2019 on the title of "Awareness raising Training on Conflict and Conflict Resolution Mechanisms to Amhara National
Regional State police commission members.

Research /Project experience/ Awards
A. Projects awarded:
1. Secured the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Master Class 2025, at University of Kassel, Germany.
2. Win the CDKN Africa Early Career Researchers Fellowship of 2025.
3. Win the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) within the African Scholarship Programme 2026, Uppsala, Sweden.
4. Founding member of "Network of Scholars of Forced Displacement and Refugee-East and Horn of Africa", Canada, Since 2024
5. Dealing with Environment: Indigenous Environmental Ethics of the Gedo People- Funded by Dilla University, 2018
6. Post-2018 political Reform in Ethiopia: The Amhara People Aspirations and Outcomes- Funded by BDU,2022
7. Security Dilemmas in the Horn of Africa: Exploring Ethiopia's Security Crisis and Regional Geopolitical Complexities- funded by Bahir Dar University, 2024

B. Research Interests
1. Indigenous knowledge and sustainable Development
2. Integrating indigenous and modern systems
3. Military intervention and regional security in the Horn of Africa
4. The rise of electoral authoritarianism in Africa as a challenge for liberal democracy
5. Civil wars and ethnic federalism in Ethiopia: Since the Post-1991, EPRDF regime
6. Military intervention in the Horn of Africa: Kenya’s and Ethiopia’s Security Engagement in Somalia

Publications and Conference Presentations
Publications
1. Yigzaw, Tadie, D. ((2017) Dealing with Environment: Indigenous Environmental Ethics, Ethiopia.
International Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 36-43. Available at: https://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/article/10.11648/j.ijp.20170504.11 
2. Yigzaw, T.D. and Mengisteab, K., 2024. Ethiopia’s and Kenya’s Use of Military Force as an Instrument of Foreign Policy in Post-1991 Somalia. India Quarterly, p.09749284231225836. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09749284231225836 
3. Yigzaw, T.D. and Mengisteab, K., 2024. Exploring the Repercussions of Bilateral Military Intrusions in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia and Kenya’s Invasion of Somalia. Journal of Asian and African Studies, p.00219096241228800. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00219096241228800 
4. Yigzaw, Tadie. D. (2020). Election meltdown: dirty tricks, distrust, and the threat to American democracy: by Richard L. Hasen, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2020, 208 pp. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2021.1932824 
5. Yigzaw, T.D. and Mengisteab, K., 2024. Security Implications of Ethiopia’s and Kenya’s Military Interventions in Post-1991 Somalia: A Regional Level Analysis. Abyssinia Journal of Business and
Social Sciences. PP. Available at: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajbss/article/view/272145 
6. Yigzaw, Tadie. D. (2019). Africa in Global International Relations: Emerging Approaches to Theory and Practice, ed. by P.-H. Bischoff, K. Aning, & A. Acharya., SSOAR, pp. 208. Available at: https://d-nb.info/1236772253/34 

7. Yigzaw, Tadie Degie. Cheeseman, Nic, and Fisher, Jonathan. (2019). Authoritarian Africa: Repression, Resistance, and the Power of Ideas. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.176. Available at: https://journals.uhk.cz/modernafrica/article/view/191 
8. Tegegne, T. A., & Yigzaw, T. D. (2025). Examining the Amhara Fano’s role in preserving Ethiopia’s security and unity. African Identities, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2025.2531108  

9. Yigzaw, T. D., & Tegegne, T. A. (2025). Dealing with non-state armed groups for regional stabilization: A focus on Al-Shabaab. Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, 11(1), 102-124.
https://doi.org/10.20372/ejss.v11i1.2730 
10. Yigzaw, Tadie Degie. Francis Fukuyama. (2018). Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Girouz, 2014, 658 pp. Available at: https://ijmra.in/v3i9/Doc/1.pdf 
11. Yigzaw, Tadie, D. (2017). Reason of state in the philosophical works of Niccolo Machiavelli: African Journal of History and Culture. Vol. 9(10), pp. 78-84. Available at: https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJHC/article-full-text/529010367071 
12. Yigzaw Tadie, D. (2020). Humanitarian Military Intervention and its Impasse: Its Legality and Legitimacy: Global Scientific Journals.Vo.8 (1), pp. 445-458. Available at https://www.globalscientificjournal.com/researchpaper/Humanitarian_Military_Intervention_and_it
s_Impasse_Its_Legality_and_Legitimacy.pdf 
13. Yigzaw Tadie, D. (2017). Discourse on the existence of African philosophy: International Journal of
Current Research: Vo.9 (4), pp.49004-49008. Available at: https://www.journalcra.com/article/discourses-existence-african-philosophy 
14. Yigzaw, Tadie. D. (2020). Understanding the Reason of State in the Philosophical Works of Niccolo Machiavelli: Arts and Social Studies Research, University of Sibiu, Romania. Available at: https://bp.bookpi.org/index.php/bpi/catalog/book/223 
15. Yigzaw, Tadie, D. (2015). Scrutinizing Power Politics and Reason of State in The Prince and The
Discourses on Livy: KS OmniScriptum Publishing. Berlin. Available at:
https://www.amazon.com/Niccolo-Machiavelli-Analysis-Scrutinizing-Discourses/dp/3659807311
16. Yigzaw, T. D. (2024). Military intervention in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia's and Kenya's security engagement in Somalia (Doctoral dissertation, Bahir Dar University).
17. Yigzaw, T. D. (2023). The military instrument and its effectiveness in implementing foreign policy
objectives: Experimenting with Ethiopia's and Kenya's 2011 operations in Somalia. Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences. Volume 9, Number 2, December, 2023. Available at: file:///C:/Users/dell/Downloads/ajol-file-journals_709_articles_266704_65eeaaaa80252.pdf  

Conference Presentation
1. Scrutinizing the Indigenous environmental Ethics of the Gedeo People, at Dilla University, 7 March, 2018
2. Exploring the Repercussions of Bilateral Military Intrusions in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia and Kenya’s Invasion of Somalia, at Bahir Dar University, on 10 January, 2024
3. Ethiopia’s and Kenya’s Use of Military Force as an Instrument of Foreign Policy in Post-1991 Somalia, at
Bahir Dar University, 5 December, 2024
4. Sudanes Refuges in Benshangul Gumz Region of Ethiopia: Pitfalls and Vitallities: at the 'Making Sense of Forced Displacement and Refugee in the Horn of Africa' conference series held on 28-29 June, 2024 at York University, Canada

5. The nexus between environment and Development in Ethiopia, at national conference held in Dilla
University from 12-13 February, 2024.

Module Preparation and Edition:
1. Regional Cooperation and Integration, as a writer at Bahir Dar University and Dilla University in 2024 and 2011 respectively
2. Introduction to Logic, as a writer at Dilla University in 2015
3. Professional Ethics and Civic Virtue as a writer at Dilla University, 2016
4. International Law and International Organization as an editor in 2011 at Dilla University

Professional Affiliations
 PhD in political Science & International Studies at Bahir Dar University, at Department of Political
Science and International Studies ( as researcher and senior professor)

Community Engagement and Administrative Activity
1. Vice Dean for Graduate Studies, Research and Community Services at the Fuculty of Social Sciences
since 4 June, 2025
2. Department Head of Civics and Ethical Studies at Dilla University from 14 February, 2011 to 18
August, 2012.
3. Department Head & chairman of Department Committee of Department of Civics and Ethical
Studies at Dilla University September 2015 - October 2017.
4. Member of Academic Commission (AC), and Strategic plan development for Collage of Social Science
and Humanities, Dilla University, Ethiopia from September 2015 - October 2017.
5. Founding member and Chair man of “Logos Discussion Forum” at Department of Civics & Ethical
Studies from September 2015 -October 2017, Dilla University.
6. Distance program coordinator at Department of Political Science and International Studies at Bahir
Dar University from 14 December, 2017- 7 January, 2018.

Language Proficiency
1. Amharic (Mother Tongue Language)
2. English (Working Language of the Ethiopian Higher Education System)
References
1. Professor Kidane Mengisteab, Senior Researcher, the Pennsylvania State University, USA,
kim3@psu.edu 
2. Professor Mohamed Salih, Senior Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague Campus, ms01011952@gmail.com 
3. Dr. Alagaw Ababu Kifle, Senior Researcher, African leadership Centre, South Africa,
kifleababu19@gmail.com 
4. Dr. Shumet Amare, Department Head of Political Science and International Studies, Bahir Dar
University, Ethiopia, shumetzeleke@gmail.com