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

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

Tendi, Blessing-Miles

Hardcover

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0198921950
ISBN13: 9780198921950
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 15 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.51 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
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.

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