Conflicting Missions (eBook)

Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

Piero Gleijeses (Autor)

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2011
576 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-6162-2 (ISBN)

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This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijesess fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cubas first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 196465 where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA and, finally, to the dramatic dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 197576, which stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed Henry Kissingers major covert operation there.Based on unprecedented archival research and firsthand interviews in virtually all of the countries involved Gleijeses was even able to gain extensive access to closed Cuban archives this comprehensive and balanced work sheds new light on U.S. foreign policy and CIA covert operations. It revolutionizes our view of Cubas international role, challenges conventional U.S. beliefs about the influence of the Soviet Union in directing Cubas actions in Africa, and provides, for the first time ever, a look from the inside at Cubas foreign policy during the Cold War.Washington Post Book WorldGleijesess research . . . bluntly contradicts the Congressional testimony of the era and the memoirs of Henry A. Kissinger. . . . After reviewing Dr. Gleijesess work, several former senior United States diplomats who were involved in making policy toward Angola broadly endorsed its conclusions. New York TimesWith the publication of Conflicting Missions, Piero Gleijeses establishes his reputation as the most impressive historian of the Cold War in the Third World. Drawing on previously unavailable Cuban and African as well as American sources, he tells a story thats full of fresh and surprising information. And best of all, he does this with a remarkable sensitivity to the perspectives of the protagonists. This book will become an instant classic. John Lewis Gaddis, author of We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War HistoryBased on unprecedented research in Cuban, American, and European archives, this is the compelling story of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses sheds new light on U.S. foreign policy and CIA covert operations, revolutionizes our view of Cubas international role, and provides the first look from the inside at Cubas foreign policy during the Cold War. >

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Envisioning Cuba
• Reihe/Serie: Envisioning Cuba
• Zusatzinfo: 24 illus., 15 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Africa • African America press • Agostinho Neto • Ahmed Ben Bella • Algeria • Alphonse Massamba-Debat • Amilcar Cabral • Angola • Argentina • Azores • Belgium • Bolivia • Byrd Amendment • Cameroon • Canada • Central Intelligence Agency • Chile • Clark Amendment • Congo Brazzaville • covert operations • Cuba • cuban missile crisis • czechoslovakia • Detente • Dominican Republic • Dwight Eisenhower • Dwight Eisenhower / • Egypt • England • Equatorial Guinea • Ernesto (Che) Guevara • Federal Republic of Germany • Fidel Castro • France • Francisco Caamano • George Ball • Gerald Ford • Gern Democratic Republic • guerrilla movements • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Hassan II • Henry Kissinger • Holden Roberto • Japan • Jimmy Carter • John Kennedy • John Vorster • Jonas Savimbi • Joseph Kasavubu • Joseph Mobutu • Julius Nyerere • Kenneth Kaunda • Kick Clark • Latin America • Laurent Kabila • Leonid Brezhnev • Lucio Lara • Lyndon Johnson • Malcolm X • Mao Zedong • Marcello Caetano • Marien Ngouabi • Martin Luther King • McGeorge Bundy • medical missions • Mercenaries • Mexico • Mike Hoare • Morocco • Mozambique • Namibia • Nathaniel Davis • National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) • National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) • Nikita Khrushchev • Operation Mongoose • Partido Africano da Independencia da Guine e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) • Paul-Henri Spaak • People's Republic of China • Popular Movement for the Liberations of Angola (MPLA) • Portugal • P.W. Botha • Raul Castro • Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) • Richard Nixon • Robert Kennedy • Roelof (Pik) Botha • Salvador Allende • South Africa • Soviet Union • Spain • Stokely Carmichael • Sweden • Tanzania • United States • U.S. press • Venezuela • Vietnam • William Colby • Yugoslavia • Zaire • Zambia • Zbignew Brzezinski
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-6162-6 / 0807861626
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-6162-2 / 9780807861622