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Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics: South Africa and the 'Congo Crisis', 1960-1965
Contributor(s): Passemiers, Lazlo (Author)
ISBN: 0815352794     ISBN-13: 9780815352792
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $161.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - General
- History | Africa - Central
- History | Military - General
Dewey: 968.061
LCCN: 2018050599
Series: Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.17 lbs) 252 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - African
- Cultural Region - Southern Africa
- Cultural Region - Central Africa
 
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Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics argues that as much as the 'Congo crisis' (1960-1965) was a Cold War battleground, so too was it a battleground for Southern Africa's decolonisation. This book provides a transnational history of African decolonisation, apartheid diplomacy, and Southern African nationalist movements. It answers three central questions. First, what was the nature of South African involvement in the Congo crisis? Second, what was the rationale for this involvement? Third, how did South Africans perceive the crisis?

Innovatively, the book shifts the focus on the Congo crisis away from Cold War intervention and centres it around African decolonisation and regional geopolitics.