This made the management of the Rhodesian Crisis more difficult, contributed to the likelihood of a UDI, and exacerbated tension in relations between Britain and its international partners. Second, the thesis argues there were structural weaknesses in the machinery of government of each of the major actors, but particularly in Britain. There were courses of action that were dismissed or remained under explored (especially in Britain, but also in the Old Commonwealth, and the United States), which could have been pursued further and may have prevented a UDI. First, it argues that although the problem of Rhodesian independence was highly complex, a UDI was by no means inevitable. Two underlying themes run throughout the thesis. This thesis uses evidence from British and international archives to examine the events leading up to Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) on 11 November 1965 from the perspectives of Britain, the Old Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), and the United States.
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