Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror

Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956–1975) and the Cold War (1945–1991), as well as during the periods of state collapse (1991–2001) and the “global war on terror” (2001–2010). In the first two periods, the most significant intervention was extra-continental. The United States, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and the former colonial powers entangled themselves in countless African confl...