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The Superpowers and Africa
- The Constraints of a Rivalry, 1960-1990
Engelsk Hardback
The Superpowers and Africa
- The Constraints of a Rivalry, 1960-1990
Engelsk Hardback

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That Africa—one of the superpowers' crucial diplomatic and economic battlegrounds—now verges on political developments as dramatic as those of eastern Europe compels us to consider the tremendous influence that East and West have wielded in recent African political development. Drawing from American diplomatic archives, firsthand interviews, and the African and international press, Zaki Laidï presents a historical analysis of how the dialectical relationships of the United States, Soviet Union, and African actors evolved to their present state. The lapse of European influence in the 1960s left a diplomatic void, which the superpowers rushed to fill. Just as Dien Bien Phû and the Suez crisis thrust Asia and the Near East, respectively, into the diplomatic spotlight, so the Angolan crisis lent a multifaceted cast to Africa's international relations. The ebb and flow of African crises is now linked to the rhythm of superpower relations, but Laidï is quick to warn that Africa's internal political circumstances shape the boundaries for external influence and constrain any efforts of the superpowers to exert total control. Laidï's provocative study, here in its first English translation, addresses diplomatic strategy, often neglected economic considerations, the growing influence of the Bretton Woods institutions, and the decline of French influence in Africa.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
258
ISBN-13:
9780226467818
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226467813
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
20 sep 1990
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
235mm
Højde:
159mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
20 sep 1990
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