Visions of freedom : Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /

Gleijeses, Piero, 1944-

Visions of freedom : Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 / Piero Gleijeses. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013] - xiv, 655 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - The New Cold War History .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-639) and index.

The Cuban drumbeat -- Neto, Castro, and Carter : a new beginning? -- The Cubans in Angola -- Strained relations : Cuba and Angola -- The fronts harden : the United States and Cuba, 1978-1980 -- Carter and Southern Africa : a balance sheet -- Enter Reagan -- The wonders of linkage -- Angolan travails -- The failure of Lusaka -- The United States, South Africa, and Savimbi -- The view from Cuba, 1984-1986 -- Havana and Moscow : conflicting strategies -- Negotiations in the offing? -- Cuito Cuanavale -- Maniobra XXXI aniversario -- Chester Crocker meets Jorge Risquet : talks about talks -- The negotiations -- The New York agreements -- Visions of freedom.

9781469609683 (cloth : alk. paper)

2013024964


Savimbi, Jonas, 1934-2002 --Pensamiento político y social .


Cold War--Political aspects--Africa, Southern.
Guerra fría--Aspectos políticos--Sudáfrica.


Africa, Southern--History--1975-
Africa, Southern--Politics and government--1975-1994.
Africa, Southern--Foreign relations--1975-1994.
Africa, Southern--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
Sudáfrica--Historia.
Sudáfrica--Relaciones exteriores--Estados Unidos--1975-1994.
Africa Meridional--Autonomía y movimientos de independencia--1975-1994.
Estados Unidos--Relaciones exteriores--1975-1994.

545 DT 1165 / G557v 2013

968.0009048