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Title: | Tanzania and the Indian Ocean |
Author: | Hartmann, Jeanette |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | Journal of Eastern African Research and Development |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 62-79 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Tanzania Indian Ocean |
Subject: | foreign policy |
Abstract: | Studies on the Indian Ocean can be divided into two main schools of thought - writers analysing the problem of the militarisation of the Indian Ocean from a third-world perspective and those writers, mainly western, writing from a western point of view. It is against the background of these writings that Tanzania's foreign policy with regard to the Indian Ocean is examined here in the light of two dominating commitments: active support for the liberation of Southern Africa, and a policy of non-alignment. Tanzania believes that by using intervention herself both in the liberation struggles of Africa and in independent African countries she can promote the conditions of non-intervention by foreign powers and hence create conditions for increasing co-operation between African states. Tanzania's foreign policy in the Indian Ocean can be seen both as a response to and as a result of the process of oceanisation of international relations. Sections: Introduction - Studies of littoral perspective on the Indian Ocean (zone of peace; western approach to the Indian Ocean; equilibrium or disequilibrium in the balance of power; opposition to US imperialism; the Soviet Union; non-alignment and the Indian Ocean; repercussions; French capital and foreign policy) - Conclusion. Notes. |