Some Russian experts also urge the current ruling elites not to overestimate Soviet Union's actual gains Africa during Cold War both economic and cooperation between Moscow and African states were more of a one-way road than mutually lucrative cooperation.. ..…

Their words, which reflect both Russia’s actions and its aspirations, present a more honest vision of what Russia is actually doing: reigniting a cold war in Africa in the hopes that it can do so below the West’s radar screen and thus on the cheap. ..…

With Cold War over, he expanded his philanthropy to Africa, Asia, Latin America, and United States, supporting array of new efforts to create more accountable, transparent, and democratic societies. ..…

Driven by local grievances as well as Cold War meddling—the Soviet Union backed Frelimo while Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa backed Renamo—the war claimed more than a million lives and destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure. ..…

Contrary to popular notions depicting state socialism as dull and gray, through extensive archival research, correspondence, and interviews, Ghodsee has uncovered vibrant, militant, dynamic movement led by women's organizations Eastern Europe and their partners in the world of Africa and Asia.. ..…

During Cold War, leftists in West were pushing for accommodation of Soviet Union, even as it swallowed up much of Europe, Africa, and Asia. ..…

While America’s top brass pays lip service to its PfP partner and ally, the KLA – with the support of the Albanian American community – is actively recruiting US citizens to fight as volunteers against the Macedonian Security Forces.16 Bear in mind that this pattern of “financing both sides” is not..…

Prior to 1990, the council imposed sanctions against just two states: Southern Rhodesia (1966) and South Africa (1977). However, since the end of the Cold War, the body has used sanctions more than twenty times, most often targeting parties to an intrastate conflict, as in Somalia,..…

You see this warning at work every time people get the vapors over Russia’s supposed influence in Syria or the possibility that a reduced presence in the Middle East or Africa will enable China to replace the United States there. . Like the old Cold War domino theory, the precise..…

Israelis bought into similar deal, ser­vicing American and Cold War interests, and in the process became the public face of oppression to many people in Central America and Africa. ..…

Global trends effect this debate such as the ending of the Cold War, the expansion of democracy and civil society, the end of apartheid in South Africa, etc. ..…

In every year since 2007, many more countries have seen their freedom decrease than have seen it increase, reversing the post–Cold War trend. The rule of law has taken a severe and sustained beating, particularly in Africa and the postcommunist states; civil liberties and..…

Africa: A New Cold War in Africa . . . email . more . . . . opinion By Mehari Taddele Maru Last week, the 12th US-Africa Business Summit, a high-level event attended by 11 African heads of state and government and some 1,000 business leaders, was held in Maputo, Mozambique...…

Up to end of Cold War 1989 the numbers are especially striking 30 of the civil wars Africa occurred in countries with precolonial state — despite the fact that countries without PCS groups accounted for only 39 percent of observations in the data set.. ..…

Up to end of Cold War 1989 the numbers are especially striking 30 of the civil wars Africa occurred in countries with precolonial state despite the fact that countries without PCS groups accounted for only 39 percent of observations in the data set.. ..…

Third, during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in multiple, armed, proxy wars across Asia, Africa and Latin America. ..…

And the Cold War became an excuse to turn a blind eye to terrible abuse. From Czechoslovakia and Hungary to Latin America, from South Africa to Vietnam, from Indonesia to Cambodia, the freedoms promised by the UN Charter were a distant dream. . ..…

What did Africa actually benefit from that posturing? If anything, neither of the competing Cold War streams fully trusted the continent to properly incorporate it in their faction. . ... The international context has changed drastically and the distribution of power that existed..…

It may be and provoke retaliation, and it's the best way to ensure that the organisations built to stop atrocities in the wake of two world wars can in the century as they survived through Cold War and Europe and Africa.. ..…

Third, during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in multiple, armed, proxy wars across Asia, Africa and Latin America. ..…

The Long Peace Enquiries into History of Cold War, by John Lewis Gaddis, OUP, 1989, p24 At press conference February 1944, his reaction to Britain's conduct Africa after Gambia on the way to Casablanca conference the month. ..…

The treaty has including South Africa, Austria, Thailand, Vietnam and Mexico. Cuba also ratified the in 2018, 56 years Cold War face-off between Moscow and Washington that marked the closest the world had ever come to nuclear war.. ..…

The treaty has including South Africa, Austria, Thailand, Vietnam and Mexico. Cuba also ratified the in 2018, 56 years Cold War face-off between Moscow and Washington that marked the closest the world had ever come to nuclear war.. ..…

Meanwhile, AFRICOM’s outgoing commanding general, Thomas Waldhauser, only recently  Congress why it’s bound to be a forever outfit — because, shades of the Cold War, the Ruskies are coming! (“Russia is also a growing challenge and has taken a more militaristic approach in..…

Meanwhile, AFRICOM's outgoing commanding general, Thomas Waldhauser, only recently told Congress why it's bound to be a forever outfit -- because, shades of the Cold War, the Ruskies are coming! (“Russia is also a growing challenge and has taken a more militaristic approach in..…

Meanwhile, AFRICOM’s outgoing commanding general, Thomas Waldhauser, only recently told Congress why it’s bound to be a forever outfit — because, shades of the Cold War, the Ruskies are coming! (“Russia is also a growing challenge and has taken a more militaristic approach in..…

Meanwhile, AFRICOM’s outgoing commanding general, Thomas Waldhauser, only recently told Congress why it’s bound to be a forever outfit – because, shades of the Cold War, the Ruskies are coming! ('Russia is also a growing challenge and has taken a more militaristic approach in..…

OG: We are in fact talking about a part of the planet which is almost the size of Africa. So when people want to bring the military model from the Cold War to this huge part of the planet, I say, let us start distinguishing different parts of the Arctic. ..…

By the poorer citizens of the planet, This Atlantic Project was anchored in the alliance called NATO with its principal work, that of reversing South Project the struggles for peace bread and justice, especially those. ..…

He also made Pakistan a prominent member of the Non-Aligned Movement, built close diplomatic relationships with the Arab nationalist-cum-socialist Ba’ath parties and extended support to movements for national liberation and progressive change in Latin America, Asia and Africa. These were remarkable..…

Both sides also funded revolutions, insurgencies, and political assassinations Central America, Africa, Asia, and Middle East... Cold War ended with the dissolution of Soviet in the 1980s and the fall of Soviet Union in 1991, it still affects modern geopolitics. ..…

Horn of Africa's relevance waned as Cold War ended, and in 1991 the country collapsed into war, while Somaliland declared its independence from the rest of Somalia.. ..…

Red Africa . . As the Cold War broke out in the 1940s, the world became a battlefield between the USSR and the U.S.: the superpowers clashed ideologically and in proxy-wars, trying to bring more countries under either the flag of ‘communism’ or ‘the free world.’ . ..…

Despite their economic integration, the United States and China are at loggerheads over everything from the strength of the Chinese currency, the yuan, to violations of intellectual property rights, cyber security, and climate change, as well as over policies in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. . ..…

The Soviet Union provided military and political aid to scores of anti-imperialist movements in Latin America, Africa, and Asia during the Cold War. . ..…

The history runs through the Korean War, CIA regime change operations (Iran, Guatemala, Congo/Zaire et al), JFK  and Cuba, the Indo-China wars (inclusive of Laos and Cambodia), the role of police training and torture at various U.S. military bases, and the variety of actions within “Rambo” Reagan’s..…

Another complementary explanation could also simply be that Gabon had begun “rebalancing” its foreign policy during that time too, having transitioned from being a French neo-colonial “possession” to a more sovereignty-minded state following its post-Old Cold War partnership with China, though..…

The weapons poured into Africa by both sides during the Cold War are still there, and they contribute to political chaos and civil wars that block development and cause enormous human suffering. ..…

He presided over the end of Cold War, the disintegration of Soviet Union and the collapse of South Africa.. ..…

The EU, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia Pacific negotiate together. The world is less polarised than it was during the cold war, and health diplomacy is more flexible. ..…

Paul Koring has covered international affairs, including conflicts and crises from Cold War to Afghanistan, reporting from Europe, Middle East, South Asia and Africa. ..…

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When the ICC was founded, it was shortly after the end of the Cold War, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the transition to democracy in many Latin American countries, and the end of dictatorship in South Korea. ..…

U.S arms sales to NATO allies, for example, have upset Russian leaders.14 Similarly, arms sales to Taiwan, not customer, have nonetheless raised tensions between China and United States.15. ..…

The political and even military push by the EU’s founding fathers, primarily Monnet and Schuman, has to be understood in the geopolitical context of the Cold War. Europe, especially France after the loss of its colonial empire in Indochina and soon afterwards in West Africa and..…

Soviet Union provided most of this aid to countries Africa, which worked to gain freedom from colonial forces through most of Cold War. ..…

Hazardous Courses in Southern Africa by George F. Kennan . October 1972 . After the Cold War: American Foreign Policy in the 1970s by George F. ..…

South Africa became the first only country to destroy its nuclear arsenal, de Klerk said, because Cold War was waning and the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola eased the sense of menace.. ..…

Together with anti-communism, Cold War was propaganda marketing strategy for undermining what every member of African generation knew, that the liberation of Africa depends on the liberation of every African country on the continent and on the liberation of African diaspora. ..…