The Economic Diplomacy of Tanzania: Accumulation by Dispossession in a Peripheral State

Ng’wanza Kamata

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2012, vol. 1, issue 3, 291-313

Abstract: Between the 1960s and the 1980s Tanzania inspired a host of countries in Africa and the global South with its principled foreign policy centred on liberation diplomacy . This policy was abandoned in the 1990s, as Tanzania adopted economic diplomacy . Over two decades have now passed and some sections of the public are questioning what economic diplomacy entails in practice, what it means to the Tanzanian society. This article is an attempt to respond to some of these questions, by exploring some general conceptions of economic diplomacy and counter-posing them to popular notions and experiences. The article argues that economic diplomacy thus far has been nothing but a tool of the neoliberal project to facilitate accumulation by dispossession.

Keywords: economic diplomacy; liberation diplomacy; foreign policy; neoliberalism; dispossession. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/227797601200100303

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