Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

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Visions of Freedom the new cold war history Odd Arne Westad, editor The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill Visions of Freedom Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991 piero gleijeses © 2013 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Designed and set in Calluna by Rebecca Evans Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gleijeses, Piero, author. Visions of freedom : Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the struggle for southern Africa, 1976–1991/Piero Gleijeses. pages cm. — (New Cold War history) isbn 978-1-4696-0968-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Africa, Southern—History—1975– 2. Cold War—Political aspects— Africa, Southern. 3. Africa, Southern—Politics and government—1975–1994. 4. Africa, Southern—Foreign relations—1975–1994. 5. Africa, Southern— History—Autonomy and independence movements. I. Title. II. Series: New Cold War history. dt1165.g54 2013 968.0009048—dc23 2013024964 Portions of this work have appeared earlier, in somewhat different form, as “Moscow’s Proxy? Cuba and Africa 1975–1988,” Journal of Cold War Studies 8:4 (Fall 2006): 98–146, © 2006 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and “A Test of Wills: Jimmy Carter, South Africa, and the Independence of Namibia,” Diplomatic History 34:5 (Nov. 2010): 853–91 (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., publisher), and are reprinted here with permission. 17 16 15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1 To Setsuko Ono This page intentionally left blank ...