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The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats

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Availability:In StockContributor:Blessing-Miles TendiPublish date:2025-05-15Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198921950ISBN-10:198921950UPC:9780198921950Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Theory, International Relations, GeopoliticsSize:9.25 x 6.51 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.3603Product ID:SCPMYBXJAG
The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats argues the 2017 coup that ousted long time Zimbabwean president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and the generality of coups, cannot be accurately and rigorously understood without examining the crucial role of gender and women's politics in military seizures of power.

Tendi's findings show that the politics of gender and women pervade military coup causes, dynamics, justifications, and international responses to coups. Contrary to influential representations of Zimbabwe's 2017 coup and other recent coups as markedly different from past coups, Tendi draws on deep gendered histories of military coups in Africa to argue that in reality there are significant continuities in coup characteristics across time. This highly original account of the 2017 Zimbabwean coup identifies the motives, dynamics, and trigger of the coup and demonstrates the centrality of gender and women's politics in these factors and processes. Additionally, despite the existence of an international anti-coup norm and democracy promotion in Africa by Western states, Zimbabwean coup makers were largely not publicly condemned or penalised by Western and African diplomats, for staging the coup.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198921950ISBN-10:198921950UPC:9780198921950Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Theory, International Relations, GeopoliticsSize:9.25 x 6.51 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.3603Product ID:SCPMYBXJAG
Blessing-Miles Tendi, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford

Blessing-Miles Tendi is Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. Tendi's core research interests are gender and politics, civil-military relations, intelligence studies, intellectuals, and biography.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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