Abstract
It is not difficult to imagine all sorts of conditions that could bring foreign intervention in African affairs, especially if past and present trends are projected into the future. What is really difficult is to specify any combination of events and developments that would leave most African countries outside the orbit of foreign intrusions in the immediate decades to come. The purpose of this chapter is to analyse the structure of such past interventions with special emphasis on military intervention up to the time of the American raid on Libya in 1986. Emerging patterns are then discussed in terms of both co-operative and competitive foreign intervention in African affairs; the new imperialism is expected to last far into the African future.KeywordsAfrican StateWorld PoliticsMilitary InterventionReagan AdministrationEuropean PowerThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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