Lazlo Passemiers

Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics (eBook, ePUB)

South Africa and the 'Congo Crisis', 1960-1965

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the 'Congo crisis' (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battleground for Southern Africa's decolonisation. This book provides a transnational history of African decolonisation, apartheid diplomacy, and Southern African nationalist movements. It answers three central questions. First, what was the nature of South African involvement in the Congo crisis? Second, what was the rationale for this involvement? Third, how did South Africans perceive the crisis?

Innovatively, the book shifts the focus on the Congo crisis away from Cold War intervention and centres it around African decolonisation and regional geopolitics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351138147
• Artikelnr.: 55711025

Autorenporträt

Lazlo Passemiers is a postdoctoral research fellow at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State, South Africa. He specialises in transnational histories of decolonisation in twentieth-century Southern Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1960 Map of Southern Africa
1960 Map of Congo
Section I: Setting the Scene
Centring Africa
The First Republic, 1960-1965
Section II: South African Involvement
1960-1963
1963-1964
1964-1965
Section III: South African Motives and Perceptions
Motives
Perceptions
Section IV: Conclusions
An African Battleground
Index