condition in Ethiopia. In a series of articles, Weldemariam engaged in a constructive criticism of Ethiopia's national security and foreign policy in which he unmasked the incumbent's obsession with territorial security to the detriment of human security. More particularly, he criticizes Ethiopia for its military misadventures in Somalia in December 2006. He also prognosticated a possible cooling in the Ethiopian American relations as result of foreseeable diplomatic wrangles over the grim domestic human rights situation. His criticism never went without provoking an official response from the foreign policy establishment. A case in point is the publication of 'A Bogus Call for a Paradigm Shift-Ethiopia's Foreign Affairs and National Security Policy and Strategy', in A Week in the Horn, the e-weekly of The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the official response, the Foreign Ministry wrote "Alemayehu Fentaw does not just miss these central elements of the Policy and Strategy instrument. He concocts facts and makes unsubstantiated allegations. One is the suggestion that US-Ethiopia relations would cool under the new US administration. In fact, as is obvious, the relationship between the two countries is thriving." Publications Books Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia: A Critical Introduction, Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010 Articles "Is the specter of the Arab Spring haunting Ethiopia?", Open Democracy, June 4, 2012, "Contributed to Donald N. Levine's "Ethiopia's nationhood reconsidered", Análise Social, vol. XLVI (199), 2011, 311-327, "The Unbearable Lightness of Pardon: Reflections on Birtukan's Second Sailing", October 10, 2010, Rasselas Review, "Ethiopia: On Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Pardon", Sudan Tribune, April 10, 2009, "Ethiopia: The Authoritarian Executive, the Rubber-Stamp parliament, and Delegation of Powers", American Chronicle, October 26, 2008, "Ethiopia: Reflections on the Crusade against Real Estate", American Chronicle, December 16, 2010, "Anarchy, Terrorism, and Piracy in Somalia: Revisited", American Chronicle, December 16, 2010, "Ethiopia's Somalia Policy: A Very Brief Critique", The Rasselas Review, January 2011, "Legal Pluralism: Its Promises and Pitfalls for Ethiopia", Jimma University Journal of Law, Vol.1, No.1, October 2007, "Ethiopian Unfair Competition Law: A Critical Evaluation", Jimma University Journal of Law, Vol. I No.2, January 2008 "Ethiopian Unfair Competition Law", The University of Oxford Center for Competition Law and Policy, CCLP Working Paper 21, "Some Observations on Ethiopian Unfair Competition Law", Ethiopian Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 1, No.2, April 2009 "A Nascent Peace and Security Architecture in the Horn of Africa: Prospects and Challenges", Horn of Africa Bulletin, March, 2009, Uppsala Sweden, "The