Essays
When Shrimps Learn to Whistle and Other Essays
Vol.2 Diplomacy,Security and Conflict
When Shrimps Learn to Whistle and Other Essays engages issues of international relations, diplomacy, international law, foreign policy and other things that matter related to those disciplines and fields. These Essays are reactions to certain issues that emerged about matters that concerned Kenya, the operational region of its external environment and the African continent. It provides a different way of looking at the issues, and offers readers a perspective from which they can contrast “their own observations with those of another person.”
This is the second volume of Essays in the series. The first was The Three Anthems and Other Essays. The aim of the series is to provide a contemporary historical context of some of the issues that Kenya's sources of national power and their policies — especially foreign policy and defence policy - have encountered during certain periods of its contemporary strategic history. They contain critiques as is the wont of intellectual contributions. But it is often forgotten that critiques ideally contain both agreements and disagreements, and are not mindless criticisms that cloud — and crowd out — any visions of a way forward.
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The Three Anthems and Other Essays
Vol.1 Diplomacy,Security and Conflict
The Three Anthems and Other Essays engages the reader in a detour through many of the issues that happened in diplomacy, security and conflict during the period of its writing. The essays are not intended to provide solutions but to raise issues and perspectives. Its theme is that in states' concern with the external environment, the same types of issues have arisen, and will arise for all countries over all time; but the prescriptions offered are always different because of the ever changing character of that environment. That environment has been described as volatile, uncertain, challenging and ambiguous (VUCA). The issues that a country like Kenya faces now are the same ones that another generation of decision makers will face in another time, sitting in the same offices. The Three Anthems is a historical record of one academic's perspectives and preferred responses to these problems during a specific period.
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