BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Creating a Commonwealth intelligence culture? Security sector refo rm and the politics of assistance in building the Tanzanian state\, 1945-1 989 - Thomas Maguire DTSTART:20190226T131000Z DTEND:20190226T140000Z UID:TALK117109@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Dr Jenny Zhao DESCRIPTION:Tanzania’s political\, economic and social development has b een the focus of numerous studies by both indigenous and foreign scholars. Nevertheless\, with the exception of key incidents such as the Zanzibar R evolution and Tanganyika Rifles Mutiny of January 1964\, the development o f the country’s security sector in the context of state-building either side of independence is not well understood. Neither is the manner in whic h Tanzania’s security sector interacted with the international community during this period\, whether it be the former British colonial power or o ther states such as Israel\, the US\, East Germany\, Czechoslovakia\, Chin a\, the Soviet Union and Cuba. This reflects a wider imbalance in Intellig ence Studies towards Anglo-American and Western-centric research.\n\nDrawi ng on overseas archives from the United Kingdom\, United States\, Israel a nd Germany\, memoirs by former Tanzanian and Stasi officers\, and intervie ws with former officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS\, more popularly MI6) and Security Service (MI5)\, this talk reveals that si gnificant change occurred in Tanzania’s increasingly politicised and uns table security sector from independence in 1961. Mirroring more neighbouri ng Uganda than Kenya\, Britain lost its primary security assistance role\, firstly to Israel\, then to a shifting consortium of the German Democrati c Republic\, Czechoslovakia\, Soviet Union\, China and Cuba from the 1960s through to the end of the Cold War.\n\n\nDr Thomas Maguire is a Junior Re search Fellow at Darwin College and the Department of Politics and Interna tional Studies (POLIS)\, University of Cambridge\, where he completed his PhD in 2015\, and a Teaching Fellow in the Intelligence and International Security Research Group at the Department of War Studies\, King's College London. Tom is also a co-convenor of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar\, teaches on the Cambridge Security Initiative’s International Security an d Intelligence (ISI) specialist short-course\, and was the John Garnett Vi siting Fellow at the Whitehall-based Royal United Services Institute for D efence and Security Studies (RUSI) from 2014-2015.\n\nTom’s main ongoing project is examining the influence of the UK on the development of state security sectors in the Global South through training and assistance since 1945. This lunchtime talk focuses on one of his case studies in this proj ect: Tanzania. Like all post-colonial states Tanzania’s political\, econ omic and social development has been the focus of numerous studies by both indigenous and foreign scholars.\n LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR