Namibia: 'Transformational Diplomacy' or 'Regime Change'?

16 September 2011
opinion

The recent revelation by WikiLeaks that former US Ambassador to Namibia, Dennise Mathieu, sent diplomatic cables saying H.E. Hifikepunye Pohamba, President of both the SWAPO Party and Namibia, held "little influence" in the country and that two opposition parties in Namibia - the RDP and COD - held secret meetings with the US diplomat in Windhoek in 2008, is in line with the US's so called "Transformational Diplomacy" crafted in 2006 by that country's former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

In a August 23, 2007 CRS report for the US Congress, foreign policy analysts Kennon H. Nakamura and Susan B. Epstein of the Congressional research service division of foreign affairs, defense and trade, alluded to this so-called "Transformational Diplomacy" which is nothing else than the " Regime Change" doctrine.

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