The crisis emerged when the Congo was granted independence from Belgium in 1960. Following an army mutiny, the state descended into chaos and near civil war. In order to stabilize the situation and prevent the Cold War from entering central Africa, the United Nations dispatched a peacekeeping ...
Lumumba and the 1960 Congo Crisis: Cold War and the Neo-Colonialism of Belgian DecolonizationThe Belgians had made little effort after The Second World War to prepare their African territory for a future as a self-governing state. Nor had they provided resources, as the French and British did...
The Congo Crisis (French: Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between 1960 and 1965. ... Around 100,000 people are believed to have been killed during the crisis. ...
Public health impact of Rwandan refugee crisis: what happened in Goma, Zaire, in July, 1994? Lancet. 1995;345(8946):339–44. 12. World Health Organization. Cholera case and death numbers by country. Wkly Epidemiol Rec. http://www.who.int/cholera/en/ 13. INS. ...
The Wilson Quarterly DRC resides at the nexus of the great power competition and the climate crisis. Can the U.S. help secure its future while supporting democratic reforms that help the Congolese people? Though few may realize it, the Democratic Republic of the C...
IC Group - 《International Crisis Group》 被引量: 25发表: 1999年 Soldiers Mistakenly Reported Killed in Action: Three German World War II Examples Related to Operation Dragoon in August 1944 Whileresearchingthehistoriesof492GermansoldierskilledinSouthernFranceinAugustandSeptember1944,threecasesofsoldiershav...
The discourse of conflict resolution in recent years has shifted to the idea of “regional solutions for regional problems,” a shift largely driven by the dampening of an initial post-Cold War enthusiasm for greater UN action worldwide. Despite undeniab
operation for the purpose of restoring order to the Congo and preparing the way for the Belgian withdrawal of its paratroopers.; The Congo crisis began as a crisis of decolonization. But the Congo could not and would not escape the Cold War. An examination of U.S. and Soviet policy in ...
However, Soviet confidence in the project was undermined by the unreliability of local leaders, and by the Congo crisis. Combining Soviet and Ghanaian sources, this article shows the importance of modernisation in the Third World for Moscow's foreign policy during the Khrushchev era. Moreover, ...
The cold war comes to Africa: Cordier and the 1960 Congo crisis.The spectacle is of the working of the political fate of human beings: the veiled logic which requires from political men actions which are the function of what they represent -- and to a lesser extent of what they are --...