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The Origins of the Angolan Civil War

Foreign Intervention and Domestic Political Conflict, 1961-76

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  • © 2001

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  1. Fernando Andresen Guimarães
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Internal Sources of Conflict in Angola

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Portuguese Colonialism in Angola

      • Fernando Andresen Guimarães
      Pages 3-30

    3. Angolan Anti-Colonialism

      • Fernando Andresen Guimarães
      Pages 31-57

    4. Exile Politics

      • Fernando Andresen Guimarães
      Pages 58-82

  3. The Externalization of Angolan Conflict

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. The Angolan Civil War 1975–76

      • Fernando Andresen Guimarães
      Pages 85-113

    3. Zaire and South Africa

      • Fernando Andresen Guimarães
      Pages 114-135

    4. Cuba and China

      • Fernando Andresen Guimarães
      Pages 136-160

    5. The Soviet Union and the United States

      • Fernando Andresen Guimarães
      Pages 161-195

  4. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Fernando Andresen Guimarães
      Pages 196-201

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 202-250
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An investigation of the origins of the Angolan civil war of 1975-76. By looking at the interaction between internal and external factors, it reveals the domestic roots of the conflict and the impact of foreign intervention on the civil war. The formative influence of colonialism and anti-colonialism on the emergence of Angolan rivalry since 1961 is described, and the externalization of that power struggle is analysed from a perspective of both international and domestic politics.

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'...an apt introduction to Angola and its interminable wrangles.' - Sousa Jamba, The Times Literary Supplement

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FERNANDO ANDRESEN GUIMARAES is currently a Special Attaché for Political Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Portugal to the United Nations. He served as an advisor to the President of the 50th Session of the UN General Assembly. In 1994, he was seconded to the UN as a consultant to the Angolan Peace talks in Zambia which led to the Lusaka Protocol. He was a UN electoral observer in Angola in 1992.

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