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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	DT2996 .C66 2011		AVAILABLE

Author	Compagnon, Daniel.
Title	A predictable tragedy : Robert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe / Daniel Compagnon.
OCLC	537641078
ISBN	9780812242676 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	081224267X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Publisher	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
	�2011
Description	333 pages ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924-2019
	Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1980-
	Zimbabwe -- Social conditions -- 1980-
	Zimbabwe -- Economic conditions -- 1980-
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Authoritarian control of the political arena -- Violence as the cornerstone of Mugabe's strategy of political survival -- Militant civil society and the emergence of a credible opposition -- The media battlefield : from skirmishes to full-fledged war -- The judiciary : from resistance to subjugation -- The land "reform" charade and the tragedy of famine -- The state bourgeoisie and the plunder of the economy -- The international community and the crisis in Zimbabwe -- Conclusion : crisis averted or merely postponed?

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