1st Edition

Kissinger, Angola and US-African Foreign Policy The Unintentional Realist

By Steven O'Sullivan Copyright 2020
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Analysing US foreign policy towards Angola during the Ford administration, this book provides an intriguing insight into one of the most avoidable and unfortunate episodes in Cold War history and explores the impact on Henry Kissinger’s much vaunted reputation for being guided by realist principles. Kissinger has dominated political discourse and scholarship on US foreign policy since the... Read more

Introduction

Chapter One: No Cause For Concern: US foreign policy and Angola 1969-1974

Chapter Two: The Davis Nomination and the crisis of credibility in US Foreign Policy

Chapter Three: The Fallout: Kissinger, Davis and the State Department

Chapter Four: The Approval of Operation IAFEATURE

Chapter Five: An Autumn of Discontent: The Collapse of IAFEATURE

Chapter Six: Humpty Dumpty Politics: Kissinger, Congress and the Vietnam Legacy

Chapter Seven: A Fractured Consensus: The Ford Administration confronts Congress

Chapter Eight: A New Beginning? Kissinger and US-African Policy

Conclusion

Biography

Steven O’Sullivan graduated with a PhD in History from University College Cork, Ireland in 2014. He also holds a Masters in both International Relations and in Information Systems, as well as Bachelor of Arts in History and Archaeology. His research interests include: US Cold War Foreign Policy in the Third-World, the Vietnam syndrome and US executive and legislative relations.