PLCP 3012 Lecture 8: SDAC 8
10 Dec 2018
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Class 8: the third world, cold war, and post-cold war politics. Today: the cold war and the new cold war. Rise of neoliberalism as the dominant ideology. In reality, most of the non-aligned bloc were a part of one of the blocs. Portuguese were going to leave; there was concern about a power vacuum and who was going to gain power. Ussr became involved in the war in angola through one of the groups. Lots of despicable regimes kept in power because they were allies . Mobutu formed an authoritarian regime, amassed vast personal wealth, and attempted to purge the country of all colonial cultural influence, while enjoying considerable support from the united. States and great britain due to his anti-communist stance. (during the congo crisis, belgian forces helped mobutu in a coup d" tat against the nationalist government of patrice lumumba in.
