Piero Gleijeses

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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 vis mere 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). vis mindre

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Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (2002) 75 eksemplarer

Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 (1991) 73 eksemplarer

Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (2013) 31 eksemplarer

The Cuban Drumbeat (What Was Communism?) (2009) 10 eksemplarer

The Dominican crisis : the 1965 Constitutionalist revolt and American intervention (1978) 5 eksemplarer

America's Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One (New Approaches to International History) (2021) 2 eksemplarer

The North Carolina Historical Review, Volume 73, Number 2 (April 1996) 2 eksemplarer

Ships in the night : the CIA, the White House and the Bay of Pigs 1 eksemplar

Cuba y África : historia común de lucha y sangre (2007) 1 eksemplar

Misiones en conflicto: La Habana, Washington, y Ãfrica 1959-1976 (Spanish Edition) (2007) 1 eksemplar

La esperanza rota : La revolucion guatemalteca y los Estados Unidos, 1944-1954 - La Esperanza Rota (2008) 1 eksemplar

Conflicting Missions Havana, Washington, & Africa, 1959-1976 1 eksemplar

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Fødselsdato: 1944
Køn: male
Nationalitet: Italy (birth)
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Fødested: Venice, Italy
Erhverv: professor
Organisationer: Johns Hopkins University

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Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and… af Piero Gleijeses

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses tells the story of Cuba's military adventure in Africa during the 1960s and 1970s. Despite its small size and poor economy, Fidel Castro's Cuba managed to provide soldiers and support to several revolutionary movements in Africa's anti-colonial struggle.

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.… (mere)

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