Sue Onslow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1036478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Onslow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Onslow |
| SIGNATURE | ONSLOW S |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence: National, Regional, International and Transnational Perspectives
60 years on from Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, this book brings together many important themes to examine its consequences and offer the most comprehensive overview to date. Situating the UDI in its local, regional, international and transnational context, this collection offers a range of historical approaches; political, economic, social, cultural, international and transnational, to provide a richer and deeper unde…
Reflections on the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) @ 30
Roundtable: Structural crises across South Asia
Round Table: The end of the Cold War and the end of apartheid, April 1994
The Commonwealth and Southern African Decolonization 1949–1994
This article addresses the role of the Commonwealth, a unique post-colonial association, in the protracted process of decolonisation in sub-Saharan Africa. It examines the ways in which Commonwealth leaders sought to use the association to enhance their national diplomacy and policy stance on African self-determination: to pressure the British government to adopt more robust policies such as economic sanctions, and to use Common-wealth meetings a…
Research Notes Special Collection: The Cold War in Southern Africa
Robert Mugabe
The Commonwealth and Challenges to Media Freedom
The absence of the official Commonwealth from the public debates on issues around media \nfreedom—not least the disquieting rising number of attacks on journalists in countries \nacross the association1—needs to be addressed.2 Other multilateral organisations and agencies \nhave taken a firm and highly visible lead, coordinating a wide range of activities and \ninstitutional frameworks to underpin the safety of journalists, government frameworks …
Zimbabwe and Election Observation Missions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s invitation to ‘throw open the doors of Zimbabwe’ to international election observers during Zimbabwe’s harmonised elections, held on 30 July 2018, was the first time
Total Onslaught: War and Revolution in Southern Africa Since 1945
This authoritative book, written by veteran journalist and military analyst Paul Moorcraft, charts the series of protracted wars which erupted across southern Africa between the 1960s and the 1990s
Race and Policy: Britain, Zimbabwe and the Lancaster House Land Deal
The question of land has both a particular historic significance and an enduring contemporary political importance in modern-day Zimbabwe. The unresolved issue of compensation for far-reaching land restitution also poses a continued impediment to any improvement in British–Zimbabwean relations. Given the impassioned accusations against the British government for its failure to fund a substantial land transfer scheme at independence, which gathere…
Voices of the Commonwealth: An Oral History of the Modern Commonwealth 1965–2012
This article describes a major exercise undertaken by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, to put together an oral history of the modern Commonwealth. The project was set in the context of a wider research agenda aimed at investigating whether the Commonwealth has made any difference globally in policy terms. As part of the exercise, the author, who was the lead researcher on the project, interviewed senior figures within the Commonweal…
Gary Baines, South Africa's Border War. Contested Narratives and Conflicting Memories
Understanding Zimbabwe: From liberation to authoritarianism and beyond
Journal Article Understanding Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism and beyond Get access Understanding Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism and beyond. By Sara Rich Dorman. London: Hurst. 2016. 224pp. £65.00. ISBN978 1 84904 582 7. Sue Onslow Sue Onslow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 93, Issue 3, May 2017, Pages 749–751, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix086 Pub…
The Battle for Mozambique: The Frelimo-Renamo Struggle, 1977–1992
This is, above all, a book of military history which – like the classic ‘curate’s egg’ – is ‘good in parts’. The book addresses the 16-year war between the Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique (FRELI
The Commonwealth and the Cold War, Neutralism, and Non-Alignment
In the Cold War era, the Commonwealth represented a global sub-system which both permitted and enabled multiple identities. Between 1949 and 1990, as a direct product of British decolonisation, the Commonwealth came to include forty-nine members of varying size with very different agenda and developmental needs to those larger members from the global ‘North’. Its heterogeneous membership included: NATO countries; ANZUS; the Non-Aligned Movement; …
Choosing a New Secretary General: More Politicking
Resistance to ‘Winds of Change’: The Emergence of the ‘Unholy Alliance’ between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa, 1964–5
Southern Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) in November 1965 is rightly seen as one of the quintessential manifestations of resistance to Macmillan's 'wind of change'.2 The defiance of the Rhodesian Front, led by Ian Douglas Smith, to the British Government's wish to see an acceleration of black political and economic rights in Southern Rhodesia following the break-up of the Central African Federation in 1963, was supported i…
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. XXVIII: Southern Africa
Myra Burton (ed.) (Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 2011), 787 pp This volume covers four distinct aspects of American policy towards sub-Saharan Africa: ‘Regional Issues’
Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation
This edited volume examines the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa and uses a range of archives to develop a more detailed understanding of the impact of the Cold War environment upon the processes of political change. In the aftermath of European decolonization, the struggle between white minority governments and black liberation movements encouraged both sides to appeal for external support from the two superpower blocs. Cold War i…
Noises Off: South Africa and the Lancaster House Settlement 1979-1980
In the existing historiography on the final settlement of the long running Rhodesian UDI crisis, the role of the South African Government has received relatively cursory consideration. The memoirs of key British players hint at the importance of Pretoria's policy towards final Zimbabwean independence, and the imperative need for the new Thatcher government to manage this aspect of the Rhodesian imbroglio. However, these accounts fail to elaborate…
Freedom at Midnight: A Microcosm of Zimbabwe's Hopes and Dreams at Independence, April 1980
This article recounts the events leading up to Independence Day in Zimbabwe in April 1980, the celebrations on the day and the hopes, fears and dreams around them
Documents: South Africa and Zimbabwe-Rhodesian Independence, 1979–1980
Unreconstructed Nationalists and a Minor Gunboat Operation: Julian Amery, Neil McLean and the Suez Crisis
This article provides new information and analysis on a hidden aspect of the Suez crisis. It argues that key members of the Conservative backbench faction, the Suez Group – Julian Amery and Neil McLean – occupied a special place in the covert British moves to remove Gamal Abdul Nasser from power in 1956. Both MPs also sought to shape the climate of political debate in the crucial period prior to Nasser's decision to nationalise the Suez Canal Com…
We Must Gain Time’: South Africa, Rhodesia and the Kissinger Initiative of 1976
The Commonwealth and the Cold War, Neutralism, and Non-Alignment
In the Cold War era, the Commonwealth represented a global sub-system which both permitted and enabled multiple identities. Between 1949 and 1990, as a direct product of British decolonisation, the Commonwealth came to include forty-nine members of varying size with very different agenda and developmental needs to those larger members from the global ‘North’. Its heterogeneous membership included: NATO countries; ANZUS; the Non-Aligned Movement; …
Freedom at Midnight: A Microcosm of Zimbabwe's Hopes and Dreams at Independence, April 1980
This article recounts the events leading up to Independence Day in Zimbabwe in April 1980, the celebrations on the day and the hopes, fears and dreams around them
Battlelines for Suez’: The Abadan Crisis of 1951 and the Formation of the Suez Group
The Abadan crisis was the initial phase of the protracted crisis in Anglo-Persian relations 1951–54, precipitated by Persia's nationalisation of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in May 1951. For many in the Tory party, it provided the test run of British policy in the Middle East. It seemed to demonstrate what should be the appropriate British response to the challenge of indigenous nationalism to British strategic and commercial interests in the re…
Roundtable: Structural crises across South Asia
The Commonwealth and Southern African Decolonization 1949–1994
This article addresses the role of the Commonwealth, a unique post-colonial association, in the protracted process of decolonisation in sub-Saharan Africa. It examines the ways in which Commonwealth leaders sought to use the association to enhance their national diplomacy and policy stance on African self-determination: to pressure the British government to adopt more robust policies such as economic sanctions, and to use Common-wealth meetings a…
Race and Policy: Britain, Zimbabwe and the Lancaster House Land Deal
The question of land has both a particular historic significance and an enduring contemporary political importance in modern-day Zimbabwe. The unresolved issue of compensation for far-reaching land restitution also poses a continued impediment to any improvement in British–Zimbabwean relations. Given the impassioned accusations against the British government for its failure to fund a substantial land transfer scheme at independence, which gathere…
Voices of the Commonwealth: An Oral History of the Modern Commonwealth 1965–2012
This article describes a major exercise undertaken by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, to put together an oral history of the modern Commonwealth. The project was set in the context of a wider research agenda aimed at investigating whether the Commonwealth has made any difference globally in policy terms. As part of the exercise, the author, who was the lead researcher on the project, interviewed senior figures within the Commonweal…
Understanding Zimbabwe: From liberation to authoritarianism and beyond
Journal Article Understanding Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism and beyond Get access Understanding Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism and beyond. By Sara Rich Dorman. London: Hurst. 2016. 224pp. £65.00. ISBN978 1 84904 582 7. Sue Onslow Sue Onslow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 93, Issue 3, May 2017, Pages 749–751, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix086 Pub…
Noises Off: South Africa and the Lancaster House Settlement 1979-1980
In the existing historiography on the final settlement of the long running Rhodesian UDI crisis, the role of the South African Government has received relatively cursory consideration. The memoirs of key British players hint at the importance of Pretoria's policy towards final Zimbabwean independence, and the imperative need for the new Thatcher government to manage this aspect of the Rhodesian imbroglio. However, these accounts fail to elaborate…
Unreconstructed Nationalists and a Minor Gunboat Operation: Julian Amery, Neil McLean and the Suez Crisis
This article provides new information and analysis on a hidden aspect of the Suez crisis. It argues that key members of the Conservative backbench faction, the Suez Group – Julian Amery and Neil McLean – occupied a special place in the covert British moves to remove Gamal Abdul Nasser from power in 1956. Both MPs also sought to shape the climate of political debate in the crucial period prior to Nasser's decision to nationalise the Suez Canal Com…
We Must Gain Time’: South Africa, Rhodesia and the Kissinger Initiative of 1976
A Question of Timing: South Africa and Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, 1964–65
This article explores the attitude and behaviour of South Africa towards Rhodesia's growing confrontation with the British government, which culminated in the Smith regime's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in November 1965. The issue of white minority independence in Rhodesia confronted the Verwoerd government with an acute dilemma: a UDI risked further international isolation and consequent danger for the Republic of South Africa (R…
Republic of South Africa Archives: Research Report
Backbench Debate within the Conservative Party and its Influence on British Foreign Policy, 1948–57
This book examines Conservative backbench debate on European integration and British relations in the Middle East between 1948 and 1957. In seeking to compare the impact of a loose affiliation of Cons
The Conservatives in power: Egypt and the Sudan 1951–53
The relatively short, but very heated party batde over the Anglo-Egyptian agreement on the Sudan proved a watershed in backbench opinion. It provided the catalyst for the ‘Sudan Group’,1 from which grew the active and extremely vocal faction, the Suez Group. The furore over the proposed agreement was the most serious revolt Churchill’s government had yet faced, coming on top of internal wrangling over transport policy, commercial television and g…
Battlelines for Suez: The Abadan Crisis of 1951 and the Formation of the Suez Group
Battlelines for Suez’: The Abadan Crisis of 1951 and the Formation of the Suez Group
The Abadan crisis was the initial phase of the protracted crisis in Anglo-Persian relations 1951–54, precipitated by Persia's nationalisation of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in May 1951. For many in the Tory party, it provided the test run of British policy in the Middle East. It seemed to demonstrate what should be the appropriate British response to the challenge of indigenous nationalism to British strategic and commercial interests in the re…
South Africa and the Owen/Vance Plan of 1977
A Question of Timing: South Africa and Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, 1964–65
This article explores the attitude and behaviour of South Africa towards Rhodesia's growing confrontation with the British government, which culminated in the Smith regime's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in November 1965. The issue of white minority independence in Rhodesia confronted the Verwoerd government with an acute dilemma: a UDI risked further international isolation and consequent danger for the Republic of South Africa (R…
Republic of South Africa Archives: Research Report
Unreconstructed Nationalists and a Minor Gunboat Operation: Julian Amery, Neil McLean and the Suez Crisis
This article provides new information and analysis on a hidden aspect of the Suez crisis. It argues that key members of the Conservative backbench faction, the Suez Group – Julian Amery and Neil McLean – occupied a special place in the covert British moves to remove Gamal Abdul Nasser from power in 1956. Both MPs also sought to shape the climate of political debate in the crucial period prior to Nasser's decision to nationalise the Suez Canal Com…
We Must Gain Time’: South Africa, Rhodesia and the Kissinger Initiative of 1976
Documents: South Africa and Zimbabwe-Rhodesian Independence, 1979–1980
Freedom at Midnight: A Microcosm of Zimbabwe's Hopes and Dreams at Independence, April 1980
This article recounts the events leading up to Independence Day in Zimbabwe in April 1980, the celebrations on the day and the hopes, fears and dreams around them
Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation
This edited volume examines the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa and uses a range of archives to develop a more detailed understanding of the impact of the Cold War environment upon the processes of political change. In the aftermath of European decolonization, the struggle between white minority governments and black liberation movements encouraged both sides to appeal for external support from the two superpower blocs. Cold War i…
Noises Off: South Africa and the Lancaster House Settlement 1979-1980
In the existing historiography on the final settlement of the long running Rhodesian UDI crisis, the role of the South African Government has received relatively cursory consideration. The memoirs of key British players hint at the importance of Pretoria's policy towards final Zimbabwean independence, and the imperative need for the new Thatcher government to manage this aspect of the Rhodesian imbroglio. However, these accounts fail to elaborate…
Resistance to ‘Winds of Change’: The Emergence of the ‘Unholy Alliance’ between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa, 1964–5
Southern Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) in November 1965 is rightly seen as one of the quintessential manifestations of resistance to Macmillan's 'wind of change'.2 The defiance of the Rhodesian Front, led by Ian Douglas Smith, to the British Government's wish to see an acceleration of black political and economic rights in Southern Rhodesia following the break-up of the Central African Federation in 1963, was supported i…
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. XXVIII: Southern Africa
Myra Burton (ed.) (Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 2011), 787 pp This volume covers four distinct aspects of American policy towards sub-Saharan Africa: ‘Regional Issues’
The Commonwealth and the Cold War, Neutralism, and Non-Alignment
In the Cold War era, the Commonwealth represented a global sub-system which both permitted and enabled multiple identities. Between 1949 and 1990, as a direct product of British decolonisation, the Commonwealth came to include forty-nine members of varying size with very different agenda and developmental needs to those larger members from the global ‘North’. Its heterogeneous membership included: NATO countries; ANZUS; the Non-Aligned Movement; …
Choosing a New Secretary General: More Politicking
The Battle for Mozambique: The Frelimo-Renamo Struggle, 1977–1992
This is, above all, a book of military history which – like the classic ‘curate’s egg’ – is ‘good in parts’. The book addresses the 16-year war between the Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique (FRELI
Race and Policy: Britain, Zimbabwe and the Lancaster House Land Deal
The question of land has both a particular historic significance and an enduring contemporary political importance in modern-day Zimbabwe. The unresolved issue of compensation for far-reaching land restitution also poses a continued impediment to any improvement in British–Zimbabwean relations. Given the impassioned accusations against the British government for its failure to fund a substantial land transfer scheme at independence, which gathere…
Voices of the Commonwealth: An Oral History of the Modern Commonwealth 1965–2012
This article describes a major exercise undertaken by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, to put together an oral history of the modern Commonwealth. The project was set in the context of a wider research agenda aimed at investigating whether the Commonwealth has made any difference globally in policy terms. As part of the exercise, the author, who was the lead researcher on the project, interviewed senior figures within the Commonweal…
Gary Baines, South Africa's Border War. Contested Narratives and Conflicting Memories
Understanding Zimbabwe: From liberation to authoritarianism and beyond
Journal Article Understanding Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism and beyond Get access Understanding Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism and beyond. By Sara Rich Dorman. London: Hurst. 2016. 224pp. £65.00. ISBN978 1 84904 582 7. Sue Onslow Sue Onslow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 93, Issue 3, May 2017, Pages 749–751, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix086 Pub…
Robert Mugabe
The Commonwealth and Challenges to Media Freedom
The absence of the official Commonwealth from the public debates on issues around media \nfreedom—not least the disquieting rising number of attacks on journalists in countries \nacross the association1—needs to be addressed.2 Other multilateral organisations and agencies \nhave taken a firm and highly visible lead, coordinating a wide range of activities and \ninstitutional frameworks to underpin the safety of journalists, government frameworks …
Zimbabwe and Election Observation Missions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s invitation to ‘throw open the doors of Zimbabwe’ to international election observers during Zimbabwe’s harmonised elections, held on 30 July 2018, was the first time
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