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Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960–1965

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, Nami ....

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History modern morocco | Middle East history | Cambridge University Press

History modern morocco | Middle East history | Cambridge University Press
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