Download or read book Zimbabwe s International Re Engagement written by Knox Chitiyo and published by Chatham House. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the disputed 2013 elections, the ZANU-PF government in Zimbabwe is facing daunting economic and political challenges. This report assesses these challengesand argues that, for recovery to be sustainable, the government must adopt policies to build investor confidence, reduce uncertainty, and re-engage with the international community.
Download or read book The Post Colonial Challenges of Nation Building Through International Engagement in Zimbabwe written by Wenceslaus Mudyanadzo and published by Eliva Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures Zimbabwe's Post-Colonial challenges of rebuilding the country through engagement and re-engagement. It proffers lessons in governance and international relations management which are critical for national transformation and development for a developing country like Zimbabwe. The experience encountered by Zimbabwe offers lessons for students and practioners in governance and international relations fields to re-orient their strategies for statecraft in the wake of experiences of Zimbabwe.
Download or read book Zimbabwe written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After nearly a year of seemingly endless talks brokered by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Zimbabwe's long-ruling ZANU-PF party and the two factions of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formed a coalition government in February. Opposition entry into government is a landmark development, and broad segments of the population are optimistic for the first time in years that a decade of repression and decline can be reversed. There is considerable international scepticism whether the flawed arrangement can succeed; many are tempted, with some reason, to second-guess the decision of mainstream MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai to accept the deal under SADC and ZANU-PF pressure. But he had no good alternative, given a collapsed economy and humanitarian catastrophe from which his constituency was suffering. Donors should re-engage and apply a "humanitarian plus" aid strategy. South Africa, in collaboration with SADC, should negotiate retirement of hardline senior security leaders in the lifespan of the inclusive government. The Global Political Agreement that gave birth to Zimbabwe's new government is flawed. Nevertheless, formation of the resulting inclusive government gives the country an opportunity to begin to recover from a disastrous decade and justifies international reengagement through an infusion of resources under a 'humanitarian plus' approach, both to lessen the suffering and to stimulate and protect a democratic transition. If the international community, regretting the inadequacies of the power sharing arrangement, stands back with a 'wait-and-see' attitude, the likely result will be that Mugabe and/or the military establishment will entrench themselves again, with a corresponding return to violence, repression and catastrophic economic policies. It is time to promote change."--Overview.
Download or read book Honey and Vinegar written by Richard Haass and published by Brookings Inst Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores circumstances and strategies for employing incentives or rewards, rather than relying solely on penalties or punishments, to pursue foreign policy objectives.
Download or read book From Antagonism to Re engagement written by Richard Kamidza and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book interrogates the European Union (EU) - Zimbabwe Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations, covering trade in goods, trade-related rules and development cooperation. The negotiations coincided with EUs motives as the dominant development partner, and Zimbabwes state-stakeholder fault-lines, creating dilemmas in the pursuit of a fair EPA outcome. As a result, the economically weak Zimbabwe signed and ratified an asymmetrical interim EPA (iEPA) with an economically powerful EU in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Meanwhile, direct bilateral re-engagement which eluded the Government of National Unity (GNU), became real following ZANU-PF landslide victory on 31 July 2013, that sufficiently altered the power balance to trigger the process between the former nemesis in support of iEPA domestication, and social and economic development. ZANU-PF government stopped blaming the EU and other western nations for the countrys continued economic underperformance, signaling a softening approach on its part. Similarly, the EU and its member states softened its perception on ZANU-PF leadership leading to resumption and intensification of re-engagement despite failure to implement the Global Political Agreement-related constitutional and democratic reforms, agreed by GNU. This re-engagement was firmly endorsed when the EU and Zimbabwe signed an agreement in July 2015 to normalise bilateral relations and start cooperation.
Download or read book Benchmarks for Re engagement by the International Community written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 February 2009 With the decision by MDC-T to enter the "unity government" has come an immediate call (for example by the AU) for the lifting of "sanctions" and the re-engagement of the international (donor) community with the Zimbabwean government. [...] However, the call for the lifting of sanctions does not merely apply to these "targeted" sanctions, but is also a call for the Western nations (the EU and the United States of America) and the multi-lateral finance institutions (the IMF and the World Bank) to re-engage, and provide balance of payments support and development assistance. [...] An absence of reports of journalist being harassed, arrested or deported, and indications that the press, radio, and television show non-partisan reporting, an absence of hate speech, the appearance of all political parties, civics and others in the media, and a plurality of broadcasters and publishing houses. [...] The only assistance that is acceptable in the short-term is direct, humanitarian assistance to the ordinary people of Zimbabwe, delivered through churches and NGOs in the case of food, and through local government structures in the case of health. [...] 4.3 State Institutions • Depoliticisation of key state institutions including the Zimbabwe Republic Police, the Zimbabwe National Army, the Zimbabwe Prison Service, the Judiciary, the Attorney-General's office, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, the Registrar- General's office, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Media and Information Commission and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission.
Download or read book Zimbabwe s Trajectory written by V. Masunungure and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Independence in 1980, Julius Nyerere called Zimbabwe 'the jewel of Africa', and cautioned its new leaders not to tarnish it. Tragically, they paid no heed to Africa's esteemed elder statesmen. Arguably - and only if one ignores the carnage of Gukurahundi - the first decade was a developmental one, with resources being used prudently to benefit the formerly disadvantaged majority population. However, the 1990s witnessed a transition from a developmental to a predatory leadership which saw Zimbabwe cross the millennial line in crisis, where it has remained ever since. While many African countries have moved forward over the last three decades, Zimbabwe has gone relentlessly backwards, save for the four-year interregnum of the tripartite coalition government, 2009-2013. Virtually all development indicators point in the wrong direction and the crisis of poverty, unemployment, and the erosion of health. education and other public goods continues unabated. The imperatives of political survival and power politics supersede those of sound economics and public welfare. Moreover, unless good politics are conjoined with a sound people-first policy, the country will continue sliding downhill. Zimbabwe's Trajectory tells the story of the country's post-independence dynamics and its recent descent into becoming one of the three most unhappy countries in the world.
Download or read book Mugabeism written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-26 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and decolonial perspectives. It is concerned with capturing various meanings of Mugabeism.
Download or read book International Aid and Its Management written by Godfrey Kanyenze and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mugabe written by Stephen Chan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 21st November 2017 Robert Mugabe resigned as President of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power. A week earlier the military had seized control of the country and forced him to step down as leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party. In this revised and updated edition of his classic biography, Stephen Chan seeks to explain and interpret Mugabe in his role as a key player in the politics of Southern Africa. In this masterly portrait of one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, Mugabe's character unfolds with the ebb and flow of triumph and crisis. Mugabe's story is Zimbabwe's - from the post-independence hopes of idealism and reconciliation to electoral victory, the successful intervention in the international politics of Southern Africa and the resistance to South Africa's policy of apartheid. But a darker picture emerged early with the savage crushing of the Matabeleland rising, the elimination of political opponents, growing corruption and disastrous intervention in the Congo war, all worsened by drought and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Stephen Chan's highly revealing biography, based on close personal knowledge of Zimbabwe, depicts the emergence and eventual downfall of a ruthless and single-minded despot amassing and tightly clinging to political power. We follow the triumphant nationalist leader who reconciled all in the new multiracial Zimbabwe, degenerate into a petty tyrant consumed by hubris and self-righteousness and ultimately face an ignominious endgame at the hands of his own army.
Download or read book Zimbabwe s International Relations written by Julia Gallagher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe is a state that has undergone significant ruptures in its domestic and international politics in recent years. This book explores how Zimbabwean citizens have, under difficult circumstances, reconstructed ideas of their state by imagining the wider world. Unlike other work on international relations, which tends to focus on the state level, this book is based on the accounts of ordinary people. Drawing on interviews with more than two hundred Zimbabweans, collected over three years, Gallagher explores how citizens draw on emotional responses to the international to find and construct different 'others'. While this unique and compelling read will appeal to those researching Zimbabwe, Gallagher's wider conclusions will interest those studying and advancing the broader theoretical debates of international relations.
Download or read book Zimbabwe s International Relations written by Julia Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the state and international relations of Zimbabwe from the perspective of their citizens.
Download or read book Zimbabwe written by International Monetary Fund. African Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) for Zimbabwe and highlights that the new government that assumed office following the July 2018 elections is committed to addressing the macroeconomic imbalances, removing structural distortions to facilitate a resumption in growth, and to re-engaging with the international community including by clearing its external arrears. The SMP will be monitored on a quarterly basis and is intended to assist the authorities in building a track record of implementation of a coherent set of economic and social policies that can facilitate a return to macroeconomic stability and assist in reengagement with the international community. With limited access to external financing and the very low level of international reserves, the authorities’ room for manoeuvre is very narrow. There are also significant implementation risks of the monetary and exchange rate reforms, as well as addressing governance and corruption weaknesses, which could adversely impact the attainment of SMP objectives.
Download or read book African Agency in International Politics written by William Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the rapidly increasing role of African states, leaders and other political actors in international politics in the 21st Century. In contrast to the conventional approach of studying how external actors impacted on Africa’s international relations, this book seeks to open up a new approach, focusing on the impact of African political actors on international politics. It does this by analysing African agency – the degree to which African political actors have room to manoeuvre within the international system and exert influence internationally, and the uses they make of that room for manoeuvre. Bringing together leading scholars from Africa and Europe to explore the role and conception of African Agency, this book addresses a wide range of issues, from relations with western and non-western donors, Africa’s role in the UN and World Trade Organisation, negotiations over climate change, trade agreements with the European Union, regional diplomatic strategies, the character and extent of African state agency, and agency within corporate social responsibility initiatives. African Agency in International Politics will be of interest to scholars and students of Africa’s international relations, African politics, development, geography, diplomacy, trade, the environment, political science and security studies.
Download or read book Zimbabwe written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book A New Zimbabwe written by Alexander H. Noyes and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents Zimbabwe's political and economic reform efforts since President Robert Mugabe's overthrow and offers recommendations for how to help the country recover.
Download or read book Zimbabwe Has a Long Way to Go Before Sanctions are Lifted written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: () Zimbabwe has a long way to go before sanctions are lifted Article by Tichafara Rhys, Zimbabwe Exiles Forum The African Union (AU), SADC and the Zimbabwean Government of National Unity (GNU), have recently begun to take it in turns to call for the removal of the targeted sanctions against certain individuals and organizations linked to Zimbabwe, arguing that it is the only way for the new govern. [...] In addition, Zanu PF argues that that the targeted sanctions introduced by the US, Australia, Canada, and the EU after the promulgation of the US Zimbabwe Democracy Recovery Act (ZIIDERA) in 2001 effectively severed the much needed credit lines to Zimbabwe and are designed to bring about regime change. [...] The question is, does the success of the inclusive government hinge on the unblocking of the economic lines of credit or should the focus be on resolving outstanding issues related to the Global Political Agreement? That is, if this new government cannot demonstrate that there has been a mentality shift and it can work sincerely as a unit, it will be difficult to convince western countries to lift. [...] This freezing of assets entails the withholding of bank funds in the name of the nominated beneficiaries in countries that have endorsed the list. [...] However, he maintained that the basis for the re-engagement of the international community depends on politics, "Politics holds the key-whether Prime Minister Tsvangirai and his colleagues are able to exercise the power for which the Zimbabwean people voted, and which the agreement to a transitional government's guidelines provides." The Government of National Unity (GNU) has of late received mill.
