Meera Sabaratnam - Decolonizing Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique

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Decolonising Intervention

International Statebuilding in Mozambique

Meera Sabaratnam

Copyright 2017 by Meera Sabaratnam

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This book project has cooked for a long time, and many have helped stir the pot. I warmly thank Celestino Jemusse Jackson Silva and Adlia Alberto Martns for their research assistance in Mozambique. I thank them and Arcenia Guambe Horstmanshoff for their ongoing inspiration and friendship. I also express my deep gratitude towards all those interviewed across Mozambique who welcomed us, gave us their time and frank commentary on what was going on around them. I promised that you would remain unidentified in the project, but your generosity and insights made this project possible. Even though you told me what to put in this book, I hope it speaks back to you.

A number of very wonderful scholars have also generously supported this project through their feedback and commentary on the text and ideas. Special thanks go to Mark Hoffman, Kimberly Hutchings, Kirsten Ainley, Chris Alden and George Lawson for their input during its genesis as a doctoral project at the LSE, Chris Cramer for his comments on the thesis and Devon Curtis as I reworked the project at Cambridge. Joe Hanlon and Colin Darch helped me retrieve primary material relating to Mozambique at crucial junctures. Other important interlocutors for the project have included Tarak Barkawi, David Chandler, Julian Go, Lee Jones, Rahel Kunz, Suthaharan Nadarajah and David Rampton, plus the Bag of Dorks. I am particularly grateful for the feedback and input of Marta Iiguez de Heredia, John Heathershaw, Kerem Niancolu and Rahul Rao on the draft chapters of the manuscript in its late stages. There are unpayable debts to Laleh Khalili, Robbie Shilliam and Mark Laffey for their generous, detailed and thoughtful comments on the entire manuscript. I would also like to express my gratitude to Anna Reeve, Dhara Snowden and Mike Watson at Rowman & Littlefield International for their encouragement, accommodation and efficiency and to the reviewers for their guidance and feedback.

As always, love and thanks to my family for all their care and support and to Mark, who carried me over the line. This book is dedicated to my late father, who I think would have appreciated the argument.

Material support for the three research visits to Mozambique was provided by the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at SOAS, University of London, the LSE Department of International Relations and the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK Government (ESRC ES/ F005431/1). Sections of the book and argument were also presented at the LSE International Theory Seminar, panels at the ISA on statebuilding and the liberal peace and a public lecture at Tecnolgico de Monterrey, Mexico.

, sourced from Mozambique History Net, is owed to Frelimo, Edio do Departamento de Trabalho Ideolgico in Maputo and was likely published in the regular publication Revista Tempo around 1979. It has not been possible to secure copyright for the reproduction of this image so far, but the publishers will be pleased to address this in future editions of the work.