Situates the Zimbabwe experience within the context of wider debates, and the international community's response

Examines in an integrated manner the macro-economic and sectoral/thematic economic determinants of the country's regression, the complex manipulation of various components of the national economy in ways which perpetuated ZANU-PF rule, and the relationship between extractive economic and political institutions

Brings the story up to date, analysing how the regime has successfully reinstated its control over the country's extractive political and economic institutions, and reversed progress made under the power-sharing agreement of 2009-2013

1. Introduction.- 2. The Economics of State Fragility.- 3. Zimbabwe's First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy.- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s.- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme.- 6. Regime Survival and the Attack on the Urban Poor.- 7. Regime Survival: Poverty Creation, Mass Migration and Elite Enrichment.- 8. International Isolation and the Search for New Friends .- 9. Economic Meltdown and Elections.- 10. The Challenges of Cohabitation - 11. Protecting the ZANU-PF State: Safeguarding Extractive Political Structures.- 12 Protecting the ZANU-PF State: Safeguarding Extractive Economic Institutions.- 13. A Resurgent ZANU-PF.- 14. The Transitions That Weren't.