Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
In: New Approaches to African History
In: New approaches to African history [7]
CHAPTER 4 War and Decolonization in Portugals African Empire, 1961-1975The National Liberation Movements; External Actors; The United States and Portugal: The Shifting Alliance; African Battlegrounds: Portuguese Guinea, Mozambique, and Angola; Portuguese Guinea; Mozambique; Angola; CHAPTER 5 White-Minority Rule in Southern Africa, 1960-1990; South Africa and the United States (1960-90); Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe (1965-80); Namibia (1966-90); Destabilization in Southern Africa (1975-90); Southern Africas White-Minority Regimes: A Unique Case; CHAPTER 6 Conflict in the Horn, 1952-1993
In: New Approaches to African History
In: New approaches to African history 7
"Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956-1975) and the Cold War (1945-1991), as well as during the periods of state collapse (1991-2001) and the "global war on terror" (2001-2010). In the first two periods, the most significant intervention was extra-continental. The United States, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and the former colonial powers entangled themselves in countless African conflicts. During the period of state collapse, the most consequential interventions were intra-continental. African governments, sometimes assisted by powers outside the continent, supported warlords, dictators, and dissident movements in neighboring countries and fought for control of their neighbors' resources. The global war on terror, like the Cold War, increased the foreign military presence on the African continent and generated external support for repressive governments. In each of these cases, external interests altered the dynamics of Africa's internal struggles, escalating local conflicts into larger conflagrations, with devastating effects on African peoples"--
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Cambridge University Press
9780521709033, 1139021370, 0521709032, 1107313961, 9781139021371, 9781107313965, 0521709032
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