Review article: Zambia's foreign policy: themes and approaches
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Land deals, and how not all states react the same: Zambia and the Chinese request
The global land rush has drawn new attention to the African state. Governments have generally been accused of brokering deals that are assumed to negatively affect local people. This framing contri...
Zambia and Southern African ‘détente’
The tide of independence that swept, seemingly irresistibly, southward across the continent of Africa beginning in the mid-1950s came to an abrupt halt along the Zambezi in the mid-1960s. For nearly a decade, a political stalemate gripped southern Africa, as independent black Africa and the white minority regimes struggled to control the fate of the more than forty million people of the subcontinent. As the years passed and little progress towards liberation was apparent, the high hopes of Africans began to fade, while the confidence of the ruling minorities in their ability to contain the pressures for change revived. The prospects of majority rule receded into the distant future, and chances of a peaceful transfer of power virtually disappeared. The decisive rejection in 1972 of Smith's 'final' terms of settlement with Britain provided a brief glimpse of the suppressed feelings of Rhodesian Africans. However it was the Portuguese military coup in April 1974 which finally destroyed the pessimistic assumptions (or comfortable illusions) on which previous scenarios had been based. Within a matter of months, transitional governments were set up in Mozambique and Angola, and firm dates for early independence fixed. Then, in November 1974, South Africa narrowly escaped expulsion from the United Nations. Confronted with these disconcerting developments, Pretoria reacted remarkably rapidly, realistically, and even ruthlessly. The result was a radical revision of its previous strategy for survival. In a desperate endeavour to cut its losses and recapture the diplomatic initiative, the South African government