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Author : Paul B. Henze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reassessing the Soviet Challenge in Africa written by Paul B. Henze and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Vanneman
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817989033
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Soviet Strategy in Southern Africa: Gorbachev's Pragmatic Approach written by Peter Vanneman and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward A. Kolodziej
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134910146X
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Limits of Soviet Power written by Edward A. Kolodziej and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation of Soviet efforts to penetrate the major regions in the southern hemisphere, concluding that success has been modest and continues to be costly. It is suggested that a world society could emerge based on socio-economic and political competition rather than conflict and arms races.
Author : Radoslav A. Yordanov
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498529100
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa during the Cold War written by Radoslav A. Yordanov and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Cold War, Soviet ideologues, policymakers, diplomats, and military officers perceived the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America as the future reserve of socialism, holding the key to victory over Western forces. The zero-sum nature of East-West global competition induced the United States to try to thwart Soviet ambitions. The result was predictable: the two superpowers engaged in proxy struggles against each other in faraway, little-understood lands, often ending up entangled in protracted and highly destructive local fights that did little to serve their own agendas. Using a wealth of recently declassified sources, this book tells the complex story of Soviet involvement in the Horn of Africa, a narrowly defined geographic entity torn by the rivalry of two large countries (Ethiopia and Somalia), from the beginning of the Cold War until the demise of the Soviet Union. At different points in the twentieth century, this region—arguably one of the poorest in the world—attracted broad international interest and large quantities of advanced weaponry, making it a Cold War flashpoint. The external actors ultimately failed to achieve what they wanted from the local conflicts—a lesson relevant for U.S. policymakers today as they ponder whether to use force abroad in the wake of the unhappy experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author : David Ernest Apter
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813914794
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa written by David Ernest Apter and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1950s David Apter and Carl Rosenberg have been among the leading American scholars in African Studies. In this volume they, along with other major specialists in the field, explore the new configurations of African politics. With tentative efforts at a revival of democracy now taking place, it seems appropriate to reasses the theoretical debates ad empirical themes that have characterized postwar Sub-Saharan African politics. Focusing on "new realism" that has emerged among Africanists since the dismantling of colonial rule, the essays are presented as a corrective both to the initial euphoria informing African studies and to the later tendency to place blame for all Africa's political and economic difficulties on the receding specter of colonial oppression.
Author : George E. Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000280446
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Soviet National Security Policy Under Perestroika written by George E. Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1990, examines the nature and causes of the changes to Soviet national security policy under Gorbachev. Changes in leadership and institutional arrangements, economic policy, ideology and military involvement all fostered new patterns of cooperation and competition. Authors look at the historical, economic and cultural contexts of change and proceed to a discussion of change agents, such as modernization, technology and domestic politics. Specific components of foreign and military policy, such as arms control and relations with Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact and the Third World, are also examined.
Author : Festus Ugboaja Ohaegbulam
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820470917
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book U.S. Policy in Postcolonial Africa written by Festus Ugboaja Ohaegbulam and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a concise examination of U.S. policy in contemporary Africa, delineates various aspects of the role that the U.S. played in exacerbating and/or resolving violent conflicts in postcolonial Africa and provides a succinct historical overview of these armed conflicts. F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam devotes considerable attention to four specific conflicts in Ethiopia-Somalia, the Western Sahara, Angola, and Rwanda and to the Clinton administration's African Crisis Response Initiative and its sequel under George W. Bush. The book concludes that lack of congruence between local forces in conflict in Africa, as well as U.S. aims in those conflicts, was only one of the constraints on the United States in its attempts at conflict resolution. America's counterproductive Cold War policies also defined relations with African states for far too long. Hence, the conflicts in postcolonial Africa became part of the legacy of those policies even as African problems continued to be low-priority concerns for the U.S. government. Libraries, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and professors of African studies, as well as the general reader, will find this book useful.
Author : Michael Clough
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
ISBN 13 : 9780876091043
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Free At Last? written by Michael Clough and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, author Michael Clough provides a comprehensive overview of U.S.-Africa relations from World War II to the present.
Author : Kurt M. Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000805204
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas written by Kurt M. Campbell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas (1989) examines the strategic, political and ideological criteria which shaped Soviet policies toward the developing world. Organized around particular themes and issues, it pays attention to both theoretical fundamentals in Soviet doctrine and to Soviet actions in specific regions. The topics range widely and include: the Soviet conception of regional security; Soviet arms transfers and military aid to the developing world; the developing world in Soviet military thinking; the USSR and crisis in the Caribbean; Soviet policy towards Southern Africa, notably Angola and Mozambique; and Soviet policy towards Southwest Africa. It looks at the activist foreign policy that Gorbachev inherited, and explores the elements of change and continuity that Gorbachev and the Soviets faced.
Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819178657
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Cold War written by Michael Cox and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1990 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, observers increasingly ask, 'Is the Cold War over? What do these changes mean for foreign policy? How confident can we be about anyone's ability to foresee the future?' This volume brings together a representative group of interpreters of the Cold War to address some of the recurrent questions. Responses divide both scholars and politicians. Critics of the Bush administration charge it has shown more nostalgia for the familiar patterns of the Cold War than energy in responding to changes in Soviet-American relations. Serious scholars who often agree on foreign policy assessments differ on key issues concerning the end of the Cold War and what will take its place. Contributors: William D. Anderson, Clay Clemens, Michael Cox, Anton W. Deporte, R. Bates Gill, Norman Graebner, Sterling Kernek, Shao-Chuan Leng, Peter Rutland, Peter Shearman, Steve Smith, Jack Spence, and Kenneth W. Thompson. Co-Published with the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Author : Roger E. Kanet
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134911605X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Cold War as Cooperation written by Roger E. Kanet and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of superpower co-operation since World War II, this book examines the regulation of USA/USSR rivalry, and outlines the power of regional states to constrain and manipulate them for their own interests.
Author : Kristin Reed
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520942582
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Crude Existence written by Kristin Reed and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. But oil extraction--both on- and offshore--is a toxic remedy for the country's economic ills, with devastating effects on both the environment and traditional livelihoods. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Kristin Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.
Author : Daniel R. Kempton
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Soviet Strategy Toward Southern Africa written by Daniel R. Kempton and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989-05-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the first significant work to examine Soviet involvement with national liberation movements (NLMs) in Africa as a separate subcategory of Soviet foreign policy in the developing world. The text compares and contrasts actual Soviet behavior with declared policy. Daniel R. Kempton presents three case studies: the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, The Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (MPLA) and the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). These cases trace the development of the Soviet Union's ties to the national liberation movements, the amount and types of assistance provided, and the impact of the relationship on the national liberation movements. General analysts of international relations, analysts of Soviet foreign policy and Africanists will find this a valuable resource. The author contends that during the 1960s and 1970s the Soviet Union pursued a common strategy toward all three national liberation movements. Although the strategy was applied flexibly to take into account the idiosyncracies of the individual liberation struggles, in each case the Soviet Union pushed the national liberation movement to adopt the Soviet political model. The Soviet view was that the adoption of this model would eventually lead to the development of relatively more stable and dependable allies. Since 1980, however, in each case there is significant evidence that the Soviet Union has altered markedly, if not abandoned, its previous strategy.
Author : William E. Odom
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822311829
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (118 download)
Download or read book On Internal War written by William E. Odom and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William E. Odom combines expertise in political science and military affairs to challenge both conventional and unconventional wisdom about insurgencies and political development. The author concludes that in all three components of U.S. strategy for counterinsurgency--political, economic, and military--faulty notions of causation inform policy. U.S. advice to embattled governments fails to recognize the inherent clash of development goals; direct fiscal aid hurts more often than it helps recipient governments; and the focus of U.S. military assistance on fighting insurgents plays to their strengths and fails to exploit their weaknesses. On Internal War reviews the contrasting theory and practice in Soviet and American approaches to their competition in the Third World and relates them to indigenous causes of internal wars. Odom also integrates the military dimensions of insurgencies with external influences and internal politics. Drawing on political development theory, he underscores the sources of instability in Third World states that make insurgencies more likely and offers ways to assess the prospects for democracy in specific cases. The centerpiece of the study is a practical application of the author's analysis to three case studies--El Salvador, Guatemala, and the Philippines--and a regional assessment of the Middle East. Odom provides no panaceas but suggests that more promising strategies can be devised.
Author : Y G-M Lulat
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813371382
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (713 download)
Download or read book U.S. Relations with South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography written by Y G-M Lulat and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive two-volume annotated bibliography of books and monographs, journal articles, government documents, documents of nongovernmental organizations, and substantive magazine and newspaper articles published since the late nineteenth century. Annotated entries contain a short abstract, a table of contents, and information on reviews. Each volume contains an author and subject index, and a periodical is included in Volume Two. Topics covered include: US Foreign Policy; Southern Africa in US-South African Relations; Nuclear Technology and Other Sectors of Trade and Economic Relations; Education Scientific and Cultural Exchanges; African Americans and South Africa; Divestment Disinvestment and Sanctions; Divestment, Disinvestment and Sanctions; Comparative Studies. This two-volume work is part of a larger project that included publication of a nearly 700-page book titled “United States Relations with South Africa: A Critical Overview from the Colonial Period to the Present” which is a critical overview of relations between the United States and South Africa going nearly as far back as the very beginning of their inception as permanent European colonial intrusions and it not only gives attention to the importance of contributions from nonofficial actors in shaping official relations, but also considers the impact of the geopolitical location of South Africa within southern Africa, where the presence of other nations - particularly Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe - looms large.
Author : James M. Scott
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822317890
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Deciding to Intervene written by James M. Scott and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a comparative case study method, Scott examines the historical, intellectual, and ideological origins of the Reagan Doctrine as it was applied to Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Mozambique, and Ethiopia. Scott draws on many previously unavailable government documents and a wide range of primary material to show both how this policy in particular, and American foreign policy in general, emerges from the complex, shifting interactions between the White House, Congress, bureaucratic agencies, and groups and individuals from the private sector."--
