Battleground Africa - Cold War in the Congo, 1960-1965 (Hardcover)

Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on recently opened archives in Russia and the United States, and to a lesser extent Germany and Belgium, Lisa Namikas addresses the crisis from the perspectives of the two superpowers and explains with superb clarity the complex web of allies, clients, and neutral states influencing U.S.-Soviet competition. Unlike any other work, Battleground Africa looks at events leading up to independence, then considers the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the series of U.N.-supported constitutional negotiations, and the crises of 1964 and 1965. Finding that the U.S. and the USSR each wanted to avoid a major confrontation, but also misunderstood its opponent's goals and wanted to avoid looking weak or losing its political standing in Africa, Namikas argues that a series of exaggerations and misjudgements helped to militarize the crisis, and ultimately, helped militarize the Cold War on the continent.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Cold War International History Project
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	February 2013
Authors:	Lise Namikas
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-8486-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Diplomacy Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-8486-8
Barcode:	9780804784863

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