Abstract

While numerous studies have examined Tanzania’s political, economic and social development either side of independence, the development of its security sector and its interaction with external actors within this context is not well understood. This partly reflects case-specific methodological challenges, tackled here through multiple overseas sources, but also the relative absence of research on intelligence and security communities in the Global South more generally. Approaching this lacunae head on, this article draws on security assistance literature related to ‘patron-client relations’ and ‘principal-agent’ theory to trace the nature and impact of limited British security assistance pre-independence, before demonstrating how and why significant change characterised Tanzania’s increasingly politicised and unstable security sector and its key international liaison partners post-independence. These changes would quickly end British hopes of integrating Tanzania into a ‘Commonwealth security culture’ of friendly post-colonial states, with Tanzania charting its own non-aligned path through a competition of Cold War patrons.

摘要

尽管有许多研究从独立性的角度研究了坦桑尼亚的政治，经济和社会发展，但在这种情况下其安全部门的发展以及与外部行为者的互动仍未得到很好的理解。这部分反映了通过多种海外渠道在这里解决的针对具体案例的方法论挑战，也反映了在全球南方相对缺乏有关情报和安全社区的研究。直面这一空白，本文借鉴了与“顾客-客户关系”和“代理人”理论有关的安全援助文献，以追溯有限的英国安全援助独立前的性质和影响，在说明坦桑尼亚在独立之后如何以及为什么进行重大变革是坦桑尼亚日益政治化和不稳定的安全部门及其主要国际联络伙伴的特点和原因之前。这些改变将很快结束英国将坦桑尼亚纳入友好的后殖民国家的“联邦安全文化”的希望，坦桑尼亚通过冷战赞助者的竞争描绘了自己不结盟的道路。