Yonas Ashine Demisse, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Addis Ababa University (AAU). He earned his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Social Studies at Makerere University. His research interest includes political theory as well as historical and comparative politics of state-society relations in and with Africa. Yonas serves as an Associate Dean for undergraduate programmes at the college of Social Science at AAU.