Crisis In Africa - Arthur Gavshon

Crisis In Africa

Battleground Of East And West

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Buch | Hardcover
322 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-01534-3 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
 Drawing upon his experience as a diplomatic correspondent and his access to world leaders on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Mr. Gavshon sets out here the declared and covert aims of the leading contestants in the contemporary struggle for presence, position, and power in Africa.
The great power rivalry surging across Africa today is a heritage of those European statesmen who a century ago in Berlin ruled straight lines on school atlases to carve up a continent—and whole nations with it—into tidy colonial compartments. With African states searching for a political identity in the post-colonial era, the superpowers are now j

Arthur Gavshon has been writing about international affairs since serving with South Africa's volunteer army during World War II. As a diplomatic correspondent, he has attended most post-war summit conferences, built up a wide network of diplomatic and political friends and sources, and interviewed and talked informally with successive heads of government in Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia.

Part One: East-West Confrontation in Africa 1. Overview 2. Realities 3. The Arms Race Part Two: The Communist Powers in Africa 4. The Soviet Union 5. Cuba 6. China Part Three: The Western Powers in Africa 7. The United States 8. France 9. Britain Part Four: Two Case Histories 10. Angola 11. The Horn of Africa

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-367-01534-X / 036701534X
ISBN-13 978-0-367-01534-3 / 9780367015343
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