Despite numerous post-WWII social science predictions that ethnic nationalist conflicts were destined to whither away, the second half of the twentieth century has seen the persistence of such conflicts. Ethnonationalist conflicts have remained as virulent as ever during the las…
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The Gorbachev epoch surprised and confounded most of the expectations and predictions of "totalitarianism" and "realism" on the question of change in the Soviet Union. Mainstream analysts--adhering, to varying degrees, to these two prevailing and mutually reinforcing Cold War pa…
Significant changes have occurred in international relations since 1989. This study examined the deliberate efforts of top leaders to bring about such alterations. In particular, it explored the tactics used by four modern leaders that facilitated change in specific aspects of t…
This dissertation explores Soviet-Black African relations under Gorbachev. Using historical analysis as its methodology, it assesses the impacts of Gorbachev's reforms, domestic and external, on Soviet policy toward SubSaharan Africa, with particular reference to the Horn and So…
Experts on Soviet-African relations during the 1960s and until the mid-1970s often espoused a popular notion that runs as follows: Africa occupied a secondary place in Moscow's foreign policy and as a result, the Soviets adopted a low profile policy on African issues. The Soviet…