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Historical dictionary of Angola
In: Historical dictionaries of Africa
World Affairs Online
A political history of the civil war in Angola, 1974-1990
When Portugal's colonial rule in Angola ended in 1974, three liberation groups-UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola), and MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola)-agreed to a tripartite movement for the fledgling nation. Conflicts quickly arose and the MPLA, with Cuban and Soviet assistance, drove its rivals from the capital, instigating a civil war, which continues into three periods (1975-1991, 1992-94, and 1998-2002). This volume covers the first period, focusing on the political history of the UNITA movement and its struggles with the MPLA. The Angolan civil war was the product of personal jealousies, contrasting ideologies, and ethnic animosities. From its inception, the conflict between UNITA and Angola's Marxist government was an international affair involving the U. S., the USSR, China, and many African states: W. Martin James III, who wrote his book near the close of the first period of civil war, contends that despite Gorbachev's "new thinking" and talk of peaceful solutions to regional conflicts, Soviet policy toward Angola marked a reversion to the Brezhnev Doctrine. The biggest MPLA-Cuban offenses occurred during Gorbachev's tenure with Soviet advisers at the brigade level directing an MPLA offensive. American policy toward Angola is also examined here. This is the first book to emphasize the dynamic role of UNITA in the Angolan liberation movement. James acknowledges that the importance of foreign powers in guaranteeing a government of national reconciliation. Just as important are strategies of compromise requiring trust in a political context where it is violated and submission for the common good where defiance is a remnant of the colonial past. Foreign policy analysts, African area specialists, and scholars of post-colonial history find this volume indispensible.
Southern States new revenue potentials
In: Southern Regional Education Board, SREB Research Monograph Series 1
Southern State and local finance trends and the war
In: Papers of the Institute of Research and Training in the Social Sciences, Vanderbilt University
In: Bulletin of the Bureau of Business Research, University of Kentucky 8
Becoming Banana Cowboys: White‐Collar Masculinity, the United Fruit Company and Tropical Empire in Early Twentieth‐Century Latin America
In: Gender & history, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 317-338
ISSN: 1468-0424
'Peace on the Cheap': A critical analysis of the Angolan electoral process
In: Small wars & insurgencies, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 318-337
ISSN: 1743-9558
No Apostle of the Armchair
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 204
ISSN: 1540-6210
An Economic Criterion for State and City Budget Making
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 1
ISSN: 1540-6210
An economic criterion for state and city budget making
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 24, S. 1-6
ISSN: 0033-3352
The states must plan
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Band 51, Heft 7, S. 367-372
ISSN: 1542-7811
AbstractTragic failures in past seen showing need to provide intelligently for growth, change.
A plan for orderly growth‐fair‐fax county 1963–1972. Office of County Executive, Fairfax, Virginia, 1961. 101 pp
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 106-107
ISSN: 1542-7811