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The Origins of the Angolan Civil War : Foreign Intervention and Domestic Political Conflict  
Author: Fernando Andresen Guimaraes
ISBN: 0333914805
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Choice
Well-crafted...Guimarães employs many newly available sources to document his case.


Review
"Well-crafted . . . Guimarães employs many newly available sources to document his case." -- Choice



Book Description
This investigation of the origins of the Angolan civil war of 1975-76 exmines the interaction between internal and external factors to reveal the domestic roots of the conflict and the impact of foreign intervention on the civil war. The formative influence of colonialism and anti-colonialism on the emergence of Angolan rivalry since 1961 is described, and the externalization of that power struggle is analyzed from a perspective of both international and domestic politics.



About the Author
Fernando Andresen Guimarães is currently Special Attaché for Political Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Portugal to the United Nations.





Origins of the Angolan Civil War: Foreing Intervention and Domestic Political Conflict

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This investigation of the origins of the Angolan civil war of 1975-76 exmines the interaction between internal and external factors to reveal the domestic roots of the conflict and the impact of foreign intervention on the civil war. The formative influence of colonialism and anti-colonialism on the emergence of Angolan rivalry since 1961 is described, and the externalization of that power struggle is analyzed from a perspective of both international and domestic politics.

FROM THE CRITICS

Choice

Well-crafted...Guimarães employs many newly available sources to document his case.

Booknews

This is a paperbound reprint of a 1998 work about which Book News wrote: This study of the Angolan civil war of 1975-76 analyzes the externalization of the war, the degree to which it commanded the attention of the two most powerful states in the world, and the tendency of those two states to portray the civil war as an episode of the Cold War. The author asserts that it was the struggle for power between Angolans, and not the Cold War, that brought conflict to Angola. He focuses on this power struggle, charting its development, and the ways in which it transcended its localized relevance. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

     



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