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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書誌詳細
第一著者: Compagnon, Daniel
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©2011.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhf1d
目次:
  • 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?