[Ethiopian Herald] For sure, Ethiopia's bargaining power is gathering momentum every year as the country has been registering rapid growth for over a decade. As history has it, opposing western aggression and domination , Ethiopia used to follow closed-door policy for many years. However, during the last so called reign of the Solomonic dynasty and the Derg regime , the previous foreign policy of the country mainly focused on upholding the popularity of the monarch and the latter 's foreign policy was based on military allia