''The principal element in the deterioration of [U.S.] relations with the Soviet Union," Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told a Washington news...

The following is a summary assessment of the organizational structure of black power in South Africa as of the latter half of 1984.

A Guide to Key Personnel in U.S. -African Diplomatic Relations

A Guide to Key Personnel in U.S. -African Diplomatic Relations

For all but the most ardent students of Indian Ocean affairs, the series of shifts in Mauritian politics in the past two and a half years are little short of...

Over the past two decades state-owned enterprises (variously referred to as SOEs or parastatals) have played a growing and, in some cases, pervasive role in the economies of African states. For three main reasons, state domination of the economy was accepted more or less...

In the last two years, Iran's foreign policy has entered a new activist phase that reflects both the consolidation of the Islamic regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah...

In September 1981 the World Bank published Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda for Action. I was the main author...

The tiny kingdom of Swaziland, sandwiched between apartheid South Africa and revolutionary Mozambique, is in the midst of a...

Cape Verde, one of Africa's most minuscule ministates, emerged from obscurity beginning in the late 1970s to provide the venue for some of the earliest and...

Kenya's experience with the International Monetary Fund in the 1980s provides a pertinent case study from which to attempt to draw some general conclusions...

The 1980s have witnessed some important changes in Soviet policy toward Africa. These have involved Moscow's broad political strategy with respect to the...