Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics: South Africa and the 'Congo Crisis', 1960-1965

ISBN-13: 9780367660581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str.

Lazlo Passemiers

Opis

Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the ‘Congo crisis’ (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battleground for Southern Africa’s decolonisation.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1960 Map of Southern Africa

1960 Map of Congo

Section I: Setting the Scene

Centring Africa

The First Republic, 1960-1965

Section II: South African Involvement

1960-1963

1963-1964

1964-1965

Section III: South African Motives and Perceptions

Motives

Perceptions

Section IV: Conclusions

An African Battleground

Index

O autorze

Lazlo Passemiers is a postdoctoral research fellow at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State, South Africa. He specialises in transnational histories of decolonisation in twentieth-century Southern Africa.