Piero Gleijeses
Auteur van Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
Over de Auteur
Piero Gleijeses is Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is the author of Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (2013), which won the AHA Friedrich Katz toon meer Prize, and Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 (2002), which won the 2002 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, as well as La Esperanza Desgarrada: la rebelin dominicana de 1965 y la invasin norteamericana (2012) and Shattered Hope: The Guatemala Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 (1991). toon minder
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Werken van Piero Gleijeses
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (2013) 31 exemplaren
The Dominican crisis : the 1965 Constitutionalist revolt and American intervention (1978) 5 exemplaren
America's Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One (New Approaches to International History) (2021) 2 exemplaren
Misiones en conflicto: La Habana, Washington, y Ãfrica 1959-1976 (Spanish Edition) (2007) 1 exemplaar
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- Johns Hopkins University
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As a Communist state, Cuba's actions were in direct opposition to the national security interests of the United States. Consequently, the U.S. often found itself supporting an opposing side in these struggles. The best example of this occurred in Angola where Cuba backed the MPLA and the United States backed the FNLA and the UNITA, while all three groups fought against the U.S. ally Portugal.
While not all of its interventions were successful--it failed to prevent the Congo from joining the anti-Communist camp as Zaire--Gleijeses provides a good account of the mixed bag that was Cuba's African adventure. During this time period, Cuba showed that a small country could still take on a powerful country like the U.S. if it is able to harness its people's superior motivation and is able to ride the wave of a popular ideology.
Cuba's foray into Africa is also an interesting story beyond its significance to the Cold War. This story provides many tales of intrigue and struggle that will keep the general history reader entertained.… (meer)