Abstract
Africa, during the second half of the twentieth century, was not a priority for U.S. foreign policy. Senior Cold War strategists concentrated their efforts elsewhere. Whereas the memoirs of past presidents and former secretaries of state contain regular references to the Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, the Middle East, and East-West relations generally, recollections of African issues are few and far between. Relations between United States and this part of the world tended to be managed lower down the foreign policy-making hierarchy. The continent was the preserve of specialist executive officials, and scrutinized by junior subcommittees of the U.S. Congress. Overall, African states were only a minor consideration within Washington DC’s prosecution of the Cold War.
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Introduction
For books based respectively on these approaches see Janice Love, The U.S. antiapartheid movement: local activism in global politics. New York: Praeger, 1985;
Neta C. Crawford and Audie Klotz, How sanctions work: lessons from South Africa. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999;
Robert Kinloch Massie, Loosing the bonds: the United States and South Africa in the apartheid years. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
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Thomson, A. (2008). Introduction. In: U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Apartheid South Africa, 1948–1994. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617285_1
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