Betting on the Africans is a study of John F. Kennedy's strategy for improving U.S.-African relations through the use of personal diplomacy to court African nationalist leaders and the ramifications that policy had for U.S. relations with its more traditional allies.
Betting on the Africans is a study of John F. Kennedy's strategy for improving U.S.-African relations through the use of personal diplomacy to court African nationalist leaders and the ramifications that policy had for U.S. relations with its more traditional allies.
Philip E. Muehlenbeck is a Professor Lecturer in the Department of History at George Washington University.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: JFK and the "Greatest Revolution in Human History" * Abbreviations * Part One * 1: 'More Royalist than the Queen': Eisenhower/Dulles Policy toward Africa * 2: JFK's Early Support of African Nationalism * 3: Kennedy, Sékou Touré, and the Success of Personal Diplomacy * 4: Kennedy, Kwame Nkrumah, and the Volta River Project Decision * 5: Kennedy, Julius Nyerere, and Self-Determination in Southern Africa * 6: Kennedy, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ben Bella, and North African Arab Nationalism * 7: Kennedy, Felix Houphouët-Boigny, William Tubman, and Conservative African Nationalism * Part Two * 8: The Kennedy-de Gaulle Rivalry in Africa * 9: The View from Pretoria * 10: Cold War Civil Rights and Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalists * 11: Contested Skies: US-USSR Competition for African Civil Aviation Markets and the Cuban Missile Crisis * Conclusion: The Kennedy Legacy in Africa * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: JFK and the "Greatest Revolution in Human History" * Abbreviations * Part One * 1: 'More Royalist than the Queen': Eisenhower/Dulles Policy toward Africa * 2: JFK's Early Support of African Nationalism * 3: Kennedy, Sékou Touré, and the Success of Personal Diplomacy * 4: Kennedy, Kwame Nkrumah, and the Volta River Project Decision * 5: Kennedy, Julius Nyerere, and Self-Determination in Southern Africa * 6: Kennedy, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ben Bella, and North African Arab Nationalism * 7: Kennedy, Felix Houphouët-Boigny, William Tubman, and Conservative African Nationalism * Part Two * 8: The Kennedy-de Gaulle Rivalry in Africa * 9: The View from Pretoria * 10: Cold War Civil Rights and Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalists * 11: Contested Skies: US-USSR Competition for African Civil Aviation Markets and the Cuban Missile Crisis * Conclusion: The Kennedy Legacy in Africa * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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