The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats

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Blessing-Miles Tendi (Professor of Politics, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford)

The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe

Gender, Coups, and Diplomats

Blessing-Miles Tendi (Professor of Politics, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford)

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English

Oxford University Press
02 April 2025

Gender studies: women; Political science & theory; Geopolitics; Political control & freedoms

The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats argues the 2017 coup that ousted long time Zimbabwean president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and the generality of coups, cannot be accurately and rigorously understood without examining the crucial role of gender and women's politics in military seizures of power.

Tendi's book shows that gender and women's politics pervade military coup causes, dynamics, justifications, and international responses to coups. Contrary to influential representations of Zimbabwe's 2017 coup and other recent coups as markedly different from past coups, Tendi draws on long gendered histories of military coups in Africa to argue that there are significant continuities in coup characteristics across time. Additionally, Tendi's highly original study of Zimbabwe's 2017 coup identifies the motives, dynamics, and trigger of the coup. Despite the existence of an international anti-coup norm and democracy promotion in Africa by Western states, Zimbabwean coup-makers' direct intervention in politics was largely not publicly condemned or penalized by Western and African diplomats. Tendi uses original interviews with diplomats and politicians involved in external responses to the coup, to address this important puzzle.

By: Blessing-Miles Tendi (Professor of Politics Professor of Politics University of Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9780198921950
ISBN 10: 0198921950
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 02 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Blessing-Miles Tendi is Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. Tendi's core research interests are gender and politics, civil-military relations, intelligence studies, intellectuals, and biography.