The present work examines the linguistic and thematic legacy of three Angolan prose works from the 1950s and 1960s: Quinaxixe by Arnaldo Santos and A cidade e a infância and Luuanda by Luandino Vieira. The twenty-two stories contained in the collections portray Angola as an ethn…
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My thesis argues that political authority produces very particular regimes of informality. The description of the city of Luanda that I undertake is concerned with explaining the process of political transformation. The city of Luanda was mostly built during colonialism to spati…
There are signs everywhere that the era of the nation-state is fading and nowhere is this clearer than in Africa, where its roots are shallowest. The awkward marriage of the 'nation' in the sense of an ethnic coalition and the 'state' as the principal source of political authori…
Inspired by Graham Allison's explanations of the Cuban missile crisis, this dissertation focuses on the October 1996–May 1997 civil war in Zaire and seeks to illuminate the complex puzzles of the changes in the behavior of state and non-state actors in the sub-region in the post…
American foreign policy is made in a complex institutional setting in which a number of actors or groups may influence both the process and the substance of policy. Unfortunately, studies of American foreign policy do not typically recognize or cope with this, preferring to focu…
For public opinion to have an effect on foreign policy, it must first enter into the political debate over policy. I classify issues according to how they are presented to the public, the key variables being crisis/non-crisis, the level of media salience, and whether elites agre…
This study examines the human security impacts of Angola and Sudan's foreign relations toward China. Sino-African relations are becoming increasingly important as global powers search for strategic resources, notably petroleum, to bolster economic development. A review of trade …
Doctrines have been a prevalent form of foreign policy in American history. What explains their origins? The study addresses this question by examining the Reagan Doctrine, a declared policy which pledged aid to anticommunist guerrillas in the Third World. The case study applies…
This study contends that Cuban policy in Africa, which was marked by two Soviet-Cuban military interventions in Angola (1975-76) and Ethiopia (1977-78), was primarily motivated by Cuba's own foreign policy interests rather than by Soviet dictate and direction. Employing two case…