| Abstract: | Over a two-year period (up to and including June 1982) the author conducted more than three dozen private interviews with senior officials from the Front-Line States, the Commonwealth, South Africa and the UN, and with Western diplomats involved in Southern African peace negotiations. It is argued that the Front-Line States, as a loose coalition of national leaders, was a key factor in the success of the Lancaster House peace conference on Rhodesia, and is a moving force behind the current programme to expand regional economic cooperation among Southern Africa's majority-ruled states. The experience demonstrates that it is possible for a group of weak and diverse states to work together towards a common political goal and, by combining, to exert decisive influence over regional developments. App. (the nine-point peace plan for Zimbabwe, endorsed by the Commonwealth Heads of State, 7 August 1979), notes, ref. |
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