Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility and the War on Terror, E. Schmidt: Book Review

Abstract : In her book, Schmidt outlines the contemporary linkages between foreign powers and Africa as driven by western-led politics of intervention. She argues that through foreign interventions, “outsiders” are able to pursue, promote or attain their specific interests in Africa. This book is an update of her 2013 publication on “foreign intervention in Africa from cold war to war on terror: new approaches to African history” which lay the historical background to past forms of interventionists’ politics in Africa, particularly during the decolonization era, in the cold war era all the way to the era of George Bush- led global war on terror following the September 2001 attack on Washington’s twin towers.

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By  George Katete