American Foreign Policy In The Congo 1960 1964

Author : Stephen R. Weissman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501743832

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American Foreign Policy in the Congo 1960-1964 by Stephen R. Weissman Pdf

This book offers a forthright and discerning evaluation of American foreign policy and its impact on the political system of an important Third World country. After assessing the situation in the Congo when independence was achieved in 1960, Mr. Weissman compares the policies of the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations. He throws new light on such questions as the role of the United States in the overthrow of Patrice Lumumba, the UN action in Katanga, and the repression of the 1964 rebellions. Weighing various influences—economic, administrative, congressional, international—on U.S. policy, he concludes that the major factor was ideological. American actions, he maintains, were based on certain mistaken assumptions that were held in common by key American decision-makers whose backgrounds and training blinded them to the realities of Congolese life. Based on extensive research, including interviews with nearly all important figures who contributed to the making of American policy, this book effectively challenges some fashionable interpretations of the causes and results of American intervention in the Third World.

Author : State Dept (U S ) Office of the Historia,Nina D. Howland,David C. Humphrey,Harriet D. Schwar,Adam M. Howard
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160820022

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Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-1968 by State Dept (U S ) Office of the Historia,Nina D. Howland,David C. Humphrey,Harriet D. Schwar,Adam M. Howard Pdf

Author : Alanna O'Malley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526116284

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The diplomacy of decolonisation by Alanna O'Malley Pdf

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this event as a lightning rod in debates about how decolonisation interacted with the Cold War. By examining the ways in which the various dimensions of the UN came into play in Anglo-American considerations of how to handle the Congo crisis, the book reveals how the Congo debate reverberated in wider ideological struggles about how decolonisation evolved and what the role of the UN would be in managing this process. The UN became a central battle ground for ideas and visions of world order; as the newly-independent African and Asian states sought to redress the inequalities created by colonialism, the US and UK sought to maintain the status quo, while the Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld tried to reconcile these two contrasting views.

Author : Henry F. Jackson
Publisher : McNally & Loftin Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 068801626X

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From the Congo to Soweto by Henry F. Jackson Pdf

Author : Jonathan E. Helmreich
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Belgium
ISBN : 0874136539

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United States Relations with Belgium and the Congo, 1940-1960 by Jonathan E. Helmreich Pdf

The low country's participation in NATO, trade of Congo goods, and American policy toward UN action in the Congo are also involved. This work analyzes the contrasting diplomatic styles of Belgian foreign ministers Paul-Henri Spaak and Paul van Zeeland and the atmosphere of disappointment that often hovered over a relationship officially characterized as warm and strong.

Author : Frank Villafana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351313308

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Cold War in the Congo by Frank Villafana Pdf

It is widely acknowledged that Congo became an East- West battlefield during the first half of the decade of the 1960s, yet the participation of Cuban exiles in the struggles is rarely noted. In this absorbing volume Villafana details the contribution made by Cuban exiles to the preservation of democracy in Congo. When Congo was given its independence by Belgium in 1960, most of its people believed their new government had been installed by the West and opposed it. Anti-colonial, anti-government Congolese patriots started fighting. Some were pro-communist, some anti-communist, and most didn't know the difference. Many countries were involved on both sides of this conflict: Cuba, the Soviet Union, The People's Republic of China, the United States (represented by military advisors, the CIA and Cuban exiles), Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and several African nations. The Cold War made the involvement of some of these countries predictable, but not the Cuban involvement. Villafana explores reasons for Castro's involvement in Congo. He considers whether Castro was operating with a master plan, of which Africa was a key. He discusses why Castro chose Che Guevara to head the ill-fated military expedition. He contemplates why the United States allowed Castro to freely export his revolution, and why it used Cuban exiles to prevent the mineral riches of Congo from falling into the hands of international communism. Villafana shows that CIA-sponsored Miami Cuban exiles were instrumental in thwarting Castro's plans for Congo, which were believed to have included a confederacy with Tanzania and Congo (Brazzaville), to gain control of Central Africa and its vast resources.

Author : Brookings Institution. Foreign Policy Studies Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN : UOM:39015010425547

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United Nations Peacekeeping in the Congo: 1960-1964 by Brookings Institution. Foreign Policy Studies Division Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:17850106

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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963: Congo Crisis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tim Pfefferle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3656340080

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The United States and the Congo Crisis, 1960 - 1961 by Tim Pfefferle Pdf

Scholarly Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: A, University of Miami (Department of International Studies), course: American Imperialism, language: English, abstract: An assessment of the role played by the United States in the so-called Congo Crisis, focusing on the initial stage from 1960 to early 1961. Following a rendering of the historical context, US foreign policy will be analyzed from a three-dimensional perspective. Thus, Realist, Marxist, and Constructivist theories of International Relations are employed to provide an interpretation of the sources and nature of US policy during the Congo Crisis. In conclusion, it will be argued that Constructivism provides the most comprehensive explanatory model to illustrate US foreign policy.

Author : Lise Namikas
Publisher : Cold War International History
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804796807

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Battleground Africa by Lise Namikas Pdf

Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on recently opened archives in Russia and the United States, and to a lesser extent Germany and Belgium, Lisa Namikas addresses the crisis from the perspectives of the two superpowers and explains with superb clarity the complex web of allies, clients, and neutral states influencing U.S.-Soviet competition. Unlike any other work, Battleground Africa looks at events leading up to independence, then considers the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the series of U.N.-supported constitutional negotiations, and the crises of 1964 and 1965. Finding that the U.S. and the USSR each wanted to avoid a major confrontation, but also misunderstood its opponent's goals and wanted to avoid looking weak or losing its political standing in Africa, Namikas argues that a series of exaggerations and misjudgements helped to militarize the crisis, and ultimately, helped militarize the Cold War on the continent.

Author : Kevin A. Spooner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774858953

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Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64 by Kevin A. Spooner Pdf

In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near collapse as its first government struggled to cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed forces. When the UN established a peacekeeping operation to deal with the crisis, the Canadian government faced a difficult decision. Should it support the intervention? By offering one of the first detailed accounts of Canadian involvement in a UN peacekeeping mission, Kevin Spooner reveals that Canada’s involvement was not a certainty: the Diefenbaker government had immediate and ongoing reservations about the mission, reservations that challenge cherished notions of Canada’s commitment to the UN and its status as a peacekeeper.

Author : Gerald J. Bender,James Smoot Coleman,Richard L. Sklar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0520056280

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African Crisis Areas and U.S. Foreign Policy by Gerald J. Bender,James Smoot Coleman,Richard L. Sklar Pdf

Author : William Blum
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1842773690

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Killing Hope by William Blum Pdf

Is the United States a force for democracy? From China in the 1940s to Guatemala today, William Blum presents a comprehensive study of American covert and overt interference, by one means or another, in the internal affairs of other countries. Each chapter of the book covers a year in which the author takes one particular country case and tells the story - and each case throws light on particular US tactics of intervention.

Author : Jerald A. Combs,Jessica Elkind
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003862437

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The History of American Foreign Policy from 1895 by Jerald A. Combs,Jessica Elkind Pdf

Now in its fifth edition, this volume offers a clear, concise, and nuanced history of U.S. foreign relations since the Spanish–American War and places that narrative within the context of the most influential historiographical trends and debates. The History of American Foreign Policy from 1895 includes both revised and new sections that incorporate insights from recent scholarship on the United States in the world. These sections devote more attention to the international framework as well as the domestic constraints under which American foreign policymakers operated. This edition also emphasizes the role of non-state actors such as missionaries, aid workers, activists, and business leaders in shaping policies and contributing to international relations. As a result, the text considers a broader and more diverse range of people and voices than many other histories of U.S. foreign policy. Expanded final chapters bring the story of U.S. foreign relations to the present and explore some of the contemporary challenges facing American and global leaders, including terrorism, the effects of climate change, China’s increasing influence, and globalization. Updated controversial issues sections and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter reflect important contributions from new studies. This engaging text is an invaluable resource for students interested in the history of American foreign policy and international relations.

Author : Jerald A Combs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315497273

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History of American Foreign Policy, Volume 2 by Jerald A Combs Pdf

First Published in 2017. Now thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the revolutionary period to the present. This is Volume II and is from 1895. The historiographical essays at the end of each chapter have been revised to reflect the most recent scholarship. The History of American Foreign Policy chronicles events and policies with emphasis on the international setting and constraints within which American policy-makers had to operate; the domestic pressures on those policy-makers; and the ideologies, preferences, and personal idiosyncrasies of the leaders themselves.