The Foreign Policy of the Gdr in Africa

by Gareth M. Winrow

Book Overview

In this 1990 book Gareth Winrow provides a comprehensive account in English of East German foreign policy towards Africa since the early 1950s. He challenges the view of the GDR's role in Africa as solely that of a proxy for the Soviet Union. Instead, as he convincingly argues, East German foreign policy in general, and in Africa in particular, should be understood as a strategy both for closer ties with the Soviet Union and for international recognition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521122597
• ISBN13: 9780521122597
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"