Disengagement from Southwest Africa: Prospects for Peace in Angola and Namibia

ISBN-13: 9781138509245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Owen Kahn

Opis

Gorbachev's new thinking on superpower relations assumes that struggle between two opposing world systems no longer characterizes the present era. This second volume in the East-South Relations series explores the implications of Gorbachev's new thinking for regional conflicts.

Spis treści

I. THE USSR AND THE CONFLICT IN ANGOLA AND NAMIBIA 1. Gorbachev’s New Political Thinking and the Angola Conflict2. Gorbachev’s Policies on Southern Africa Colin Legum 3. Soviet Foreign Policy for Angola/Namibia in the 1980s: A Strategy of Coercive Diplomacy II. CUBA AND THE CONFLICT IN ANGOLA AND NAMIBIA 4. Cuba’s Role in Southern Africa: The Angola- Namibia Negotiations and the Future of Superpower Conflict in the RegionIII. SOUTH AFRICA AND THE CONFLICT IN ANGOLA AND NAMIBIA 5. South Africa and the 1988 Agreements6. Retrenchment and Recalculation: South Africa and the Angola-Namibia Agreements IV. ANGOLA AND NAMIBIA BETWEEN EAST AND WEST 7. The Angola/Namibia Agreements: Likely Results and Policy Implications8. The Namibia-Angola Settlement and the Future of U.S.-Soviet Competition in the Third World V. CONCLUSION 9. Perceptions and Peace Appendix A: UNLIKELY DIALOGUE: SOVIET AND UNITA VIEWS ON THE CONFLICT I. Soviet Attitudes Toward Southern Africa II. UNITA’s Role in Angola

O autorze

Owen Kahn, volume editor, is assistant professor of political science at the Graduate School of International Studies, the University of Miami. Born in South Africa, he received an M.A. from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.