The Primacy of Regime Survival

This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present. In contrast to much existing literature on post-independence Zimbabwe which has focused on the political dimensions of Zimbabwe's fragility, this research highlights the economic aspects of Zimbabwe's regression flowing from prolonged mismanagement of the economy which has served to consolidate the rule of the country's political and economic elite. The Zimbabwean experience offers unique insights into the economic mensions of regime preservation. This book situates the Zimbabwe experience within the context of wider debates within the field of development studies, and the international community's response to such situations.

Situates the Zimbabwe experience within the context of wider debates, and the international community's response Examines in an integrated manner the macro-economic and sectoral/thematic economic determinants of the country's regression, the complex manipulation of various components of the national economy in ways which perpetuated ZANU-PF rule, and the relationship between extractive economic and political institutions Brings the story up to date, analysing how the regime has successfully reinstated its control over the country's extractive political and economic institutions, and reversed progress made under the power-sharing agreement of 2009-2013

Autorentext
Mark Simpson is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study of the University of London, UK. He previously served in UN peacekeeping missions in Angola and East Timor and worked for UNDP in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana.
Tony Hawkins is former Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business, University of Zimbabwe. He is a consultant for an international bank, and one of the two lead authors of the SADC Industrialization Strategy (2015). He served on the Board of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the Monetary Policy Committee (20102014).

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Economics of State Fragility.- 3. Zimbabwe's First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy.- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s.- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme.- 6. Regime Survival and the Attack on the Urban Poor.- 7. Regime Survival: Poverty Creation, Mass Migration and Elite Enrichment.- 8. International Isolation and the Search for New Friends .- 9. Economic Meltdown and Elections.- 10. The Challenges of Cohabitation - 11. Protecting the ZANU-PF State: Safeguarding Extractive Political Structures.- 12 Protecting the ZANU-PF State: Safeguarding Extractive Economic Institutions.- 13. A Resurgent ZANU-PF.- 14. The Transitions That Weren't.

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