Foreign intervention in Africa : from the Cold War to the War on Terror

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Schmidt

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Series: New approaches to African history ; 7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, during the periods of decolonisation and the Cold War, as well as during the periods of state collapse and the 'global war on terror'. In the first two periods, the most significant intervention was extra-continental. The USA, 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 neighbouring countries and fought for control of their neighbours' resources. The global war on terror, like the Cold War, increased 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Abbreviations
Introduction
Historical Background: Situating the Book
Focus of the Book
Organization of the Book
CHAPTER 1 Nationalism, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1945-1991
Imperial Actors
Cold War Actors
The Case Studies
CHAPTER 2 Egypt and Algeria Radical Nationalism, Nonalignment, and External Intervention in North Africa, 1952-1973
Egypt, 1952-73
Algeria and Francophone North Africa, 1954-62
CHAPTER 3 The Congo Crisis, 1960-1965
The Crisis of 1960-61
The Crisis of 1964-65. 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. Ethiopia and the United StatesSomalia and the Soviet Union
The Somali-Ethiopian War, 1977-78
Ethiopia and the Soviet Union
Somalia and the United States
The Eritrean Independence War, 1961-93
CHAPTER 7 Frances Private African Domain, 1947-1991
Radical Nationalism, Decolonization, and the Cold War
Reform and Resistance
Neocolonialism in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
French Military Intervention in African Affairs
New Developments in the 1990s
CHAPTER 8 From the Cold War to the War on Terror, 1991-2010
Economic Decline, State Collapse, and Competition for the Spoils
Liberia. SomaliaSudan
Zaire
The Global War on Terror (2001-10)
Beyond the War on Terror
Conclusion
Index.

✦ Subjects

History;Cultural;Africa;Politics