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Title: | International Politics and National Liberation: ZANU and the Politics of Contested Sovereignty in Zimbabwe |
Author: | Reed, William Cyrus |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 31-59 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | national liberation movements foreign policy ZANU-PF nationalism Politics and Government international relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/524732 |
Abstract: | Unlike other newly independent States in Africa, the government of Robert Mugabe brought with it a long heritage of activity in international affairs. This pattern of international activity by Mugabe's party, ZANU(PF), grew out of its pursuit of a protracted, mass-based, and internationally supported armed struggle for independence. Thus, to understand the foreign policy of Zimbabwe, it is necessary to examine the international activities of ZANU prior to independence, when it was a liberation movement. It is this link between liberation movements, sovereignty and foreign policy which is the focus of this study. It is divided into three sections. The first section examines the international and domestic dimensions of juridical and empirical sovereignty and provides a theoretical framework for the study of the international activities of liberation movements. The second section examines the evolution of the international activities of ZANU which are divided into four phases: ZANU's initial thrust into a hostile international arena (1963-1968); the emergence and impact of international alliances, particularly with the People's Republic of China (1968-1974); the impact of changing regional interests (1974-1976); and ZANU's move toward juridical sovereignty (1976-1980). The final section serves as the conclusion. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |