Ripe for Resolution: Conflict and Intervention in Africa

by I. William Zartman

Book Overview

What causes local conflict in Africa and the rest of the Third World? What role, if any, can the U.S. play in helping to resolve these conflicts, and when is the time ripe for a response by an external power? This study, written by an internationally renowned Africanist and undertaken as part of the Africa Project of the Council on Foreign Relations, examines the causes and nature of African conflict and addresses the issue of how foreign powers can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019505931X
• ISBN13: 9780195059311
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"