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Title: | The Militarization of the Indian Ocean and the Liberation of Southern Africa |
Author: | Mugomba, Agrippah T. |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Affairs |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 5 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 261-280 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Indian Ocean South Africa |
Subjects: | international politics militarism strategic policy Politics and Government international relations Military, Defense and Arms nationalism |
Abstract: | This essay analyzes the growing militarization of the Indian Ocean area from the point of view if its effects on the prospects for continuing liberation and the establishment of a stable regional order in Southern Africa. Of immediate interest is the role of Southern African militarism in promoting the sub-imperial objectives of regional neo-colonialism and dependent development, including service as both conduit and custodian of Western imperialist interests. A major contention of the paper is that African concern with matters pertaining to Indian Ocean security centers on perceptions of the pivotal role played by South Africa in both promoting and defending what are primarily Western political, economic, and military interests linked to the so-called Cape Sea routes. This is not to deny that South Africa has its own regional interests which are tied specifically, though not exclusively, to its survival as the last stronghold of European racism and colonial aggression in Africa. South African interests are subordinate to the larger interests of the Western powers. Notes. |