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Title: | Election Monitoring and Observation in Zimbabwe: Hegemony versus Sovereignty |
Author: | Matlosa, Khabele |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | African Journal of Political Science |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 129-154 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | elections 2000 2002 election monitoring Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/ajps/122/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | In no country of the SADC region is the clash between the global hegemony of the Western liberal world and the sovereignty of a developing country so manifest as in the recent developments around the monitoring and observation of elections in Zimbabwe. Therefore, this paper contends that the interest of Western governments in the 2000 parliamentary and 2002 presidential elections in this country is driven more by a desire for the entrenchment of their hegemony over Zimbabwe and the achievement of their strategic interests, than by any quest for the rule of law and democratic principles. The paper explores ways in which researchers, policy practitioners and nongovernmental organizations can better fathom and explicate the current clash between between imperialist hegemony and national sovereignty as expressed in the context of the SADC region as a whole and Zimbabwe in particular. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |