The cold war in Africa
- Created by: Grace Pengelly
- Created on: 22-12-13 19:09
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- The cold war in Africa
- The cold war shaped the birth of the African state.
- Was it a form of colonialism by other means?
- Both US/Soviets 'helped africa along'
- International recognition became crucial to the est. of African states
- African states birthed into a preexisting world order
- Post WW2 nation state sovereignty key to limiting conflict
- Arguably cold war ruled out autonomy of action for Africa: lots of external interventions
- Was it a form of colonialism by other means?
- Negative sovereignty
- Whoever controls resources controls the state
- Strategy of extraverison, Bayart
- States 'recognised' which didn't meet empirical criteria
- superficial changes only
- Personalisation of power
- Reinforced global hierarchies and system of weak states
- Whoever controls resources controls the state
- Case studies
- South African in the 1970s: Proxy wars carried out
- Congo/Kinshasa/Zaire 1960s
- Zaire 1978-97: Mobuto: negative sovereignty/weak judiciary helped him stay in power
- The cold war shaped the birth of the African state.
- Quasi statehood. R.Jackson - sovereignty derived from external recognition
- PA became buried underneath the state system
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