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Soviet Foreign Policy in Africa
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This research examines the foreign policy pursued by the Soviet Union in Sub Saharan Africa. One characterization of Soviet policy toward Sub Saharan Africa is opportunistic, and this examination considers the policy in that context. Soviet foreign policy with respect to Sub Saharan Africa, however, is more than opportunistic. It is, or has at some point been, competitive, reactive, self interested, economically driven, and disinterested. Above all, Soviet policy has not been con sistent over time, or consistent with respect to the several countries of Sub Saharan Africa, and it may be changing in the Grobachev era. These characteristics of Soviet foreign policy toward Sub Saharan Africa are considered, in addition to its tendency, at times, toward opportunism. Under the leadership of Stalin, Soviet policy toward Sub Saharan Africa, and, indeed, toward the Third World generally, was, for the most part, one of disinterest.1 Stalin viewed the Third World with disdain. Nevertheless, under the colonial 1S. Bailer, and M. Mandelbaum, The Global Rivals (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 56. 1 2rule of the several European powers, communist oriented politi cal groups were formed in the Sub Saharan African countries. The primary goals of these political groups were gaining of political independence for their countries, and the establish ment of proletarian governments in those countries.
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his context, Khrushchev was intrigued by the Third World.16 He believed that the emergence of independent states in Sub Saharan Africa "offered fertile opportunities for the expansion of Soviet political influence . . . ."17
In the pursuit of this new approach to Sub Saharan Africa, Soviet foreign policy became competitive with both the US and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). The events transpiring in the RSA often appear to render all other contemporary develop ments in Sub Saharan Africa as superfluous. To a great extent, however, the tragedy of the RSA is but a part of the interde pendent political development of the entire region.
All of the events occurring in Sub Saharan Africa are related, and, to a great extent, interdependent. Beyond the region, these events have become intertwined with the inter ests, real or perceived, of the world's east west political
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15Handel, 47.
16Bialer, and Mandelbaum, 56.
17Ibid.
7struggles.18 The political developments in each of the countries of Sub Saharan Africa are, thus, significant beyond the national borders within which they occur, although relative significance tends to vary.
The foreign policy initiatives of the US and the Soviet
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