Foreign Intervention in Africa (New Approaches to African History, 7) by Elizabeth Schmidt

Author:Elizabeth Schmidt [Schmidt, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-28T07:00:00+00:00

Photo 5.1. Sign outside the General Motors factory in Cape Province, South Africa, January 1, 1956 (Three Lions/Getty Images).

Photo 5.2. Anti-Rhodesia demonstrators in London protesting British appeasement of the white-minority regime, November 25, 1971 (Frank Barratt/Getty Images).

Photo 5.3. President Reagan with UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi in the Oval Office, January 30, 1986 (Bettmann/Corbis).

Suggested Reading

Several important books focus on U.S. policy toward Southern Africa. Thomas J. Noer's Cold War and Black Liberation: The United States and White Rule in Africa, 1948–1968 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985) explores the evolution of American policy toward the region from the Truman through the Johnson administrations, when the early commitment to oppose colonialism was overshadowed by Cold War concerns and, finally, declining interest in Africa. Thomas Borstelmann's Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) focuses on the Truman administration and examines the role of racism, as well as Cold War concerns, in U.S.-South Africa policy. Alex Thomson brings these works up to date in U.S. Foreign Policy towards Apartheid South Africa, 1948–1994: Conflict of Interests (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), which assesses the conflicts inherent in U.S.-South Africa policy throughout the apartheid era. Kenneth Mokoena has compiled an invaluable collection of declassified documents in South Africa and the United States: The Declassified History (New York: New Press, 1993), which provides insight into U.S.-Southern Africa policies from the Kennedy through the George H. W. Bush administrations. Two works by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker provide a glimpse into the thinking and internal workings of the Reagan administration's Africa policy network. “South Africa: Strategy for Change,” Foreign Affairs 59, no. 2 (Winter 1980–81): 323–51, outlines the constructive engagement policy that became the cornerstone of the administration's South Africa policy. High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighborhood (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), a memoir written in response to his critics, is a defense of constructive engagement and provides an insider's account of policy battles within the administration. International relations scholar J. E. Davies provides a counterpoint to Crocker in Constructive Engagement? Chester Crocker & American Policy in South Africa, Namibia & Angola, 1981–1988 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007), in which he outlines the aims of Crocker's strategy, examines its implementation, and argues that it failed in its objectives.

A number of important studies examine the political and economic interests and roles of other outsiders in the region. William Minter's King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986) is a highly readable overview of the role of Western governments and businesses in creating and sustaining white-minority rule in Southern Africa. Sasha Polakow-Suransky provides an in-depth exposé of the military and nuclear ties that bound South Africa and Israel in The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa (New York: Pantheon, 2010). Sue Onslow's edited collection, Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation (New

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