Piero Gleijeses
Auteur de Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
A propos de l'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 afficher plus 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). afficher moins
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Œuvres de Piero Gleijeses
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (2013) 30 exemplaires
The Dominican crisis : the 1965 Constitutionalist revolt and American intervention (1978) 4 exemplaires
America's Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One (New Approaches to International History) (2021) 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1944
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Italy (birth)
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Venice, Italy
- Professions
- professor
- Organisations
- Johns Hopkins University
Membres
Critiques
Listes
The Cold War (1)
Africa (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 198
- Popularité
- #110,929
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 22
- Langues
- 1
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.… (plus d'informations)