rozvojová pomoc a spolupráca - Fakulta medzinárodných vzťahov

Mozambique and Ethiopia were supporting ZANU with RobertMugabe’s leadership and not ZAPU with Joshua Nkomo’s leadershipduring Zimbabwe’s struggle for independence. Zambia supported ZAPUat that time.2) It was also used as important instrument to identify a friend from anenemy:For example: Kwame Nkrumah a fried to Africa where as FelixBoigny is not; he is a puppet of the colonizers, such as France in the caseof Ivory Coast. It is used to define the animosity between differentmovements in the same or different countries. For instance, in AngolaMPLA versus UNITA; or in Angola and Congo between MPLA andMobutu S. Seko; Yoweri Museveni versus Daniel Arapmoj and the like.3) It was used to limit the political decision making of others - the cause ofthe demise of colonialism is not only the resistance of Africans, but themetropolitans themselves were pretty convinced about its failingperspectives.4) It was used to get correct political decisions - for example, Guinea in1958 chose independence as first former France colony who decided tointegrate with Ghana; or the attempt of creating the foundation for theOAU that had to emerge in the future.On the other hand a foreign policy which is mainly based on nationalinterest advocates about achieving its goals within the state system, throughaccepting the existing environment and by adapting to it. This, national interestbased, approach of shaping foreign policy is different from the ideology basedone. The latter approach insists on evolving completely new environment offoreign policy and international relations, denying that the de jure (currentlyestablished) environment is inefficient to maintain peace, security and mutualsatisfaction. The prior leans towards maintaining the de jure environment. Thelatter thus embraces elements of radical changes as compared to the prior onewhich inclines towards the conservative school.Post colonial development of international politics and internationalrelations of SSA could be explained thus based on these two aforementionedaspects, these are: National interest, and ideology. These aspects show twodifferent approaches, which are, however, intertwined. National interest isrealistic, constructive, adaptive and inductive, where as ideology is idealistic,191