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Title: | The Political Economy of Rhodesian Sanctions |
Author: | Sutcliffe, R.B. |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 113-125 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | economic sanctions Politics and Government international relations Economics and Trade |
Abstract: | The Rhodesian crisis has been a political event in which the economic policies and their economic effects have been central. The British Government's policy of economic sanctions was designed to have political effects; the economic policies of the Rhodesian regime have been designed to defeat these effects. The author examines the ways in which economic changes which followed the Rhodesian crisis have contributed to the political positions of the British, South African and Rhodesian governments and to the political pressures on them. In this context the author stresses that UDI has produced only a very marginal change in the political position of Africans in Rhodesia. Consequently the purpose of sanctions was not to produce an improvement in this position but merely to produce a return to 'legality', to end UDI. In this sense sanctions have almost worked. Parts of the article: Introduction - Sanctions and politics in Britain - Political effects of sanctions in Rhodesia - South Africa and the political effects of sanctions. Notes, tables. |