The Superpowers and Africa: The Constraints of a Rivalry, 1960-1990

by Zaki Laïdi

Book Overview

That Africa--one of the superpowers' crucial diplomatic and economic battlegrounds--now verges on political developments as dramatic as those of eastern Europe compels us to consider the tremendous influence that East and West have wielded in recent African political development. Drawing from American diplomatic archives, firsthand interviews, and the African and international press, Zaki Laid presents a historical analysis of how the dialectical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226467813
• ISBN13: 9780226467818
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"