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Cold War in Africa — Proxy Conflicts and Their Long Shadow (New Post)
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2026-05-12 15:44:45
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Published a piece on the Cold War's African chapter — a dimension of Cold War history that gets much less coverage than it deserves. The core argument: nearly every major African conflict from the 1950s to the 1990s was shaped by superpower competition. Angola is the archetypal case — two superpowers and Cuba fighting a proxy war for 27 years. Somalia and Ethiopia flipped sides mid-conflict. The structural damage left by militarization, institutional hollowing, and deferred development is not a footnote. It's formative history for understanding why so many African states remain fragile. This is a long one. I tried to be honest about both the external dimensions and the agency of local actors.
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