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Title:Soviet Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Final Phase
Author:Webber, MarkISNI
Year:1992
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:30
Issue:1
Period:March
Pages:1-30
Language:English
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Soviet Union
Subjects:foreign policy
international relations
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/161044
Abstract:The transformation of Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev era resulted in alterations in approach to the Third World and, more specifically, sub-Saharan Africa, where changes in policy amounted to a major Soviet retreat. This article deals with regional conflicts and Soviet-American relations, the peace process in southwestern Africa (notably the national reconciliation in Angola in late 1989 and the independence of Namibia in April 1990), and in Mozambique and Ethiopia, Soviet 'de-ideologization' and sub-Saharan Africa, the factors that have effectively eliminated Moscow's strategic interest in sub-Saharan Africa, the reassessment of Soviet foreign policy concerning economic relations with sub-Saharan Africa, and the further marginalization of the status of sub-Saharan Africa as a Soviet concern after the abortive seizure of power in Moscow in August 1991. Notes, ref.
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