US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa by Fl... - 9780367498634

Taylor & Francis

US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in AfricaA Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order, 1988-1994\nAuthor(s): Flavia Gasbarri\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367498634, 978-0367498634\nSynopsis\nThis book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent.\n\nThe fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however, it documents just one of the many \""ends\"", since the Cold War was a global conflict. This book looks at one of the most neglected extra-European battlegrounds, the African continent, and explores how American foreign policy developed in this region between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Drawing on a wide range of recently disclosed documents, the book shows that the Cold War in Africa ended in 1988, preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall. It also reveals how, since then, some of the .