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The Superpowers and Africa (Hardcover)
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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 Laidi 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 Phu
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 Laidi 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.
Laidi'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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