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Foreign Military Intervention In Africa
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Author : Keith Somerville
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1990
Foreign Military Intervention In Africa written by Keith Somerville and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Africa categories.
Piecing together the post-independence chain of events that has involved the Soviet Union, Cuba, Libya, France and South Africa in domestic and interstate wars in Angola, Ethiopia, Chad, Mozambique, Somalia and elsewhere, Somerville (current affairs dept., BBC World Service) disentagles a skein of history, political ideology and ethnic conflict, to discern why African states invite intervention, why foreign states intervene, and what their actions mean for the present and future stability and security of the continent. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Foreign Intervention In Africa
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Author : Elizabeth Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-25
Foreign Intervention In Africa written by Elizabeth Schmidt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-25 with History categories.
This book chronicles foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, helping readers understand the historical roots of Africa's problems.
African Interventions
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Author : Emizet F. Kisangani
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-11
African Interventions written by Emizet F. Kisangani and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with Political Science categories.
A rich and accessible examination of military intervention on the African continent, from both foreign and African military actors.
Foreign Intervention In Africa
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Author : Elizabeth Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-25
Foreign Intervention In Africa written by Elizabeth Schmidt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-25 with History categories.
Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, during the periods of decolonisation and the Cold War, as well as during the periods of state collapse and the 'global war on terror'. In the first two periods, the most significant intervention was extra-continental. The USA, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and the former colonial powers entangled themselves in countless African conflicts. During the period of state collapse, the most consequential interventions were intra-continental. African governments, sometimes assisted by powers outside the continent, supported warlords, dictators and dissident movements in neighbouring countries and fought for control of their neighbours' resources. The global war on terror, like the Cold War, increased foreign military presence on the African continent and generated external support for repressive governments. In each of these cases, external interests altered the dynamics of Africa's internal struggles, escalating local conflicts into larger conflagrations, with devastating effects on African peoples.
Foreign Intervention In Africa After The Cold War
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Author : Elizabeth Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-22
Foreign Intervention In Africa After The Cold War written by Elizabeth Schmidt and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-22 with History categories.
In Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War—interdisciplinary in approach and intended for nonspecialists—Elizabeth Schmidt provides a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences. She focuses on the quarter century following the Cold War (1991–2017), when neighboring states and subregional, regional, and global organizations and networks joined extracontinental powers in support of diverse forces in the war-making and peace-building processes. During this period, two rationales were used to justify intervention: a response to instability, with the corollary of responsibility to protect, and the war on terror. Often overlooked in discussions of poverty and violence in Africa is the fact that many of the challenges facing the continent today are rooted in colonial political and economic practices, in Cold War alliances, and in attempts by outsiders to influence African political and economic systems during the decolonization and postindependence periods. Although conflicts in Africa emerged from local issues, external political and military interventions altered their dynamics and rendered them more lethal. Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War counters oversimplification and distortions and offers a new continentwide perspective, illuminated by trenchant case studies.
Foreign Military Intervention
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Author : Ariel Levite
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1992
Foreign Military Intervention written by Ariel Levite and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Strong nation-states often assume that they can use their military might to intervene in civil wars and otherwise reshape the domestic political order of weaker states. Often, however, as recent history demonstrates, foreign military interventions end up becoming protracted conflicts. This was the case, for example, for the United States in Vietnam, the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, Syria in Lebanon, Israel in Lebanon, South Africa and Cuba in Angola, and India in Sri Lanka. Some of these cases resulted in major setbacks; in others, a greater degree of success was achieved. But in all six, the interventions turned out to be long, complicated, and costly undertakings with far-reaching repercussions. Foreign Military Intervention: The Dynamics of Protracted Conflict brings together prominent scholars in an ambitious and innovative comparative study. The six case studies noted above constitute a diverse set, involving superpowers and regional powers, democracies and non-democracies, neighboring states and distant states, and incumbent regimes and insurgent movements. The book examines both the similarities and the differences among these cases, identifying key patterns and gaining insights both about the individual cases themselves and the dynamics of foreign military intervention in general. Each case study is structured according to three analytical stages of intervention--getting in, staying in, and getting out--and is focused through three levels of analysis: the international system, the domestic context of the intervening state, and the domestic context of the target state. Three additional chapters provide cross-case comparisons along each of the analytic stages, adding depth and richness to the study. A concluding chapter by the editors provides additional perspective on foreign military interventions, integrating major arguments and presenting key theoretical as well as policy-oriented findings. While all six cases are drawn from the Cold War era, the issues raised and dilemmas posed never have been strictly tied to any particular system structure. Indeed, they preceded the Cold War and, as already evident amidst the new and widespread domestic instability of the post-Cold War world, will postdate it. Foreign Military Intervention: The Dynamics of Protracted Conflict thus is a timely, important study of value and relevance both to scholars and policymakers dealing with the challenges of contemporary world politics.
Making War And Waging Peace
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Author : David R. Smock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Making War And Waging Peace written by David R. Smock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Africa categories.
During the past decade or so, Africa has been beset by an extraordinarily high number of wars. Indeed, some two to three million people died because of Africa??'s warefare in the 1980??'s alone.That heavy burden of war, most of it originating internally, has been accompanied by frequent external involvement, both in terms of military intervention and through efforts to promote conflict resolution, usually by mediation.This volume focuses on the role and effectiveness of external intervention in sub-Saharan Africa, primarily during the 1980???s. The authors include a range of Western and African scholars and policymakers with extensive experience in Africa.The richly detailed case studies examine Angola and Namibia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Mozambique, and Sudan. Additional essays assess the role of the OAU and summarize French, British, and Belgium military involvement. An afterword by former diplomat Chester Crocker offers several guidelines for promoting peace-making and peacekeeping on the African continent in the future.
Managing African Conflicts
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Author : Louis Du Plessis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Managing African Conflicts written by Louis Du Plessis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Africa, Sub-Saharan categories.
In the last years of the twentieth century military interventions by states in the conflicts occurring in other countries dominated television news on Africa. Military units from Nigeria or Gambia, Ghana or Guinea were patrolling the streets of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. Armoured vehicles from South Africa and Botswana lumbered up and down the main streets of Lesotho's capital, Maseru. Soldiers from Zimbabwe and Angola assisted those from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to defend the Congolese capital against rebel insurgents supported by Ugandan, Rwandan and Burundian forces. Those who observed the camouflaged uniforms, and wished to understand something more of these events, were inevitably puzzled by many questions. Some of these questions were: Why are the armed forces of so many African states intervening in the domestic affairs of their neighbours? What are these armed forces actually doing on foreign soil? Why are so many African conflicts continuing from year to year, thereby inevitably inviting and attracting intervention? And finally: what kinds of theoretical and legal conceptual frameworks will help observers understand the nature of such military interventions?
The Military In African Politics
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Author : William Gutteridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Military In African Politics written by William Gutteridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
Democracy By Force
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Author : Abass Bundu
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2001
Democracy By Force written by Abass Bundu and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Although democracy, the rule of law and respect for fundamental human rights are the defining idioms of contemporary state governance and international relations, they are hardly commonplace in Africa. In domestic environments severely degraded by abuse of power and rebellion, what kind of existence do African leaders give to their people? Can they proclaim rights for their citizens in international instruments but behave in ways that are diametrically opposite? What future has democracy when the last election was a rogue one and the incumbent regime the beneficiary? Sierra Leone, whose civil conflict enters its tenth year in March 2001, carries the unenviable status of playing host to the world's largest peacekeeping force. Yet there is still no lasting peace in a conflict that has determined not so much who is right or wrong as who is left.