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

Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from...
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Author: Lise Namikas
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Language: English
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Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960a 1965 by Namikas, Lise

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

¥37,714

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

¥37,714
Author: Lise Namikas
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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, Namikas argues that a series of exaggerations and misjudgements helped to militarize the crisis, and ultimately, helped militarize the Cold War on the continent.



Author: Lise Namikas
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 02/27/2013
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.30w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780804784863


Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2013

About the Author
Lise Namikas is an adjunct instructor at Louisiana State University and helped to organize the Wilson Center's Congo Crisis Oral History Conference in 2004.

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