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The aim of this book is to investigate the nature of civil conflict and intervention in Africa with special reference to Nigeria, Angola and Zaïre. We shall concentrate on five main features associated with the subject in each of the three study areas: (a) the determinant of the extent of intervention in the conflict1; (b) the type of intervention the contending power groups or factions (in each conflict) are prepared to accept during hostilities2; (c) the motive for intervention3; (d) the mode of intervention,4 and (e) the consequences of intervention (or outcomes of intervention).
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For a useful background survey of both theoretical and historical literature on the subject, see especially the following: various contributions in the special edition on ‘Intervention’ in the Journal of International Affairs 22 (2), 1968, particularly essays by James Rosenau, Andrew Scott, Oran Young and William Zartman; James Rosenau, ‘Intervention as a Scientific Concept’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 13 (2), 1968, pp. 165–87;
C. R. Mitchell, ‘Civil Strife and the Involvement of External Parties’, International Studies Quarterly, 14 (2), 1970, pp. 166–94;
F. S. Pearson, ‘Geographic Proximity and Foreign Military Intervention’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 18 (3), 1974, pp. 432–60;
Morton Kaplan, ‘Intervention in Internal War: Some Systemic Sources’, in James Rosenau (ed.), International Aspects of Civil Strife (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964), pp. 92–121;
K. J. Holsti, International Politics (London: Prentice/Hall International, 1974);
Richard Little, Intervention — External Involvement in Civil Wars (London: Martin Robertson, 1975);
Richard J. Barnet, Intervention and Revolution (London: Paladin, 1972);
V. Kubalkova and A. A. Cruicksank, Marxism-Leninism and the Theory of International Relations (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980);
Mohammed Ayoob (ed.), Conflict and Intervention in the Third World (London: Croom Helm, 1980);
Bereket Habte Selassie, Conflict and Intervention in the Horn of Africa (New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1980);
Noam Chomsky, ‘The Cold War and the Superpowers’, Monthly Review, 33 (6), 1981, pp. 1–10;
Chomsky, ‘The United States: From Greece to El Salvador’, in Noam Chomsky, et al., Superpowers in Collision (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982), pp. 20–42;
Chomsky, ‘Strategic Arms, the Cold War and the Third World’, in New Left Review (ed.), Exterminism and Cold War (London: Verso, 1982), pp. 223–36;
Chomsky, ‘Intervention in Vietnam and Central America: Parallels and Differences’, Monthly Review, 37 (4), 1985, pp. 1–29;
Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn (eds), The Politics of Intervention: The United States in Central America (New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1984);
Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy, ‘Lessons of Vietnam’, Monthly Review, 37 (2), 1985, pp. 1–13;
Fred Halliday, The Making of the Second Cold War (London: Verso, 1983)
Halliday, Beyond Irangate: The Reagan Doctrine and the Third World (Amsterdam: Transnational Institute, 1987).
Emmanuel Hansen (ed.), Africa: Perspectives on Peace and Development (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1987), p. 6. See particularly the following: Latin American Bureau, The Poverty Brokers: The IMF and Latin America (London: Latin America Bureau, 1983);
Chinweizu, ‘Debt Trap Peonage’, Monthly Review, 37 (6), 1985, pp. 21–36;
Harry Magdoff, ‘Third World Debt: Past and Present’, Monthly Review, 37 (9), 1986;
Peter Korner, et al., The IMF and the Debt Crisis: A Guide to the Third World’s Dilemmas (London: Zed Books, 1986);
John Clark, For Richer, For Poorer: An Oxfam Report on Western Connections with World Hunger (Oxford: Oxfam, 1986);
Jacobo Schatan, World Debt: Who is to Pay? (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1987);
Frederick Clairmonte and John Cavanagh, ‘Impossible debt on road to global ruin’, Guardian (London), 9 January 1987;
Samir Amin, ‘The State and the Question of “Development”’, in Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o (ed.), Popular Struggles for Democracy in Africa (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1987)
and Susan George, A Fate Worse Than Debt (Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1988).
S. Neil MacFarlane, Superpower Rivalry and 3rd World Radicalism: The Idea of National Liberation (London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1985), especially ch. 5.
Basil Davidson, ‘Precondition For Peace’, West Africa, 1 February 1988, p. 175.
See Fidel Castro, A Pyrrhic Military Victory And A Profound Moral Defeat (La Habana: Editoria Politica, 1983).
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Ekwe-Ekwe, H. (1990). Conflict and Intervention in Africa: An Overview. In: Conflict and Intervention in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21071-8_1
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