A predictable tragedy : Robert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe /
When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he wou...
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Obsah:
- Authoritarian control of the political arena
- Violence as the cornerstone of Mugabe's strategy of political survival
- Militant civil society and the emergence of a credible opposition
- The media battlefield : from skirmishes to full-fledged war
- The judiciary : from resistance to subjugation
- The land "reform" charade and the tragedy of famine
- The state bourgeoisie and the plunder of the economy
- The international community and the crisis in Zimbabwe
- Conclusion : crisis averted or merely postponed?