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1986
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UNITA, Angola and South Africa : the Role of the West ?, by Renaud Girard
The United States hâve recently given military aid to UNITA, a liberation movement struggling for ten years against the presence of a Cuban expeditionary corps in Angola. Should the West help UNITA ? Many in the West are opposed to any assistance, evoking South African aid to UNITA and implicitely denying its own political perso-nality. UNITA, however, while deeply rooted in its own country, has a strong and unique political perspective being revolutionary in tactic but pro-West in its goals. Confronted by Soviet expansionism in southern Africa, the West seemed to be paralyzed for many years by a regretable Munick Conference-type attitude. For the West, the résistance in Angola of a movement as strong as UNITA is a windfall. Both political morality in helping its friends, and the défense of its own interests are at the heart of the West's engagement.
10 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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01 janvier 1986
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Français