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Title:The United States and Portuguese Africa: a perspective on American foreign policy
Author:Marcum, J.ISNI
Year:1971
Periodical:Africa Today
Volume:18
Issue:4
Pages:23-37
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
Portugal
colonial territories
United States
Subject:foreign policy
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4185192
Abstract:U.S.A. relations with Portugal illuminate a central structural weakness in the formulation and execution of American foreign policy. A weakness with a confusing if not contradictory duality: an artificial separation of public and private policy. Examined first is the political-military situation in Portugal and its African territories, secondly the nature of the policy alternatives thus posed and the record of American action, public and private. The American involvement in Portugal's wars resulted in a situation in which private interests have been permitted to redefine national policy from that of a rather limited to a massive intervention in support of the status quo. Three possible alternatives are suggested: 1. complete dissociation from all military, technical, economic support of Portugal, 2. increased support for the Gaetano government (modernization, metropolitan integration and reform in the African territories); 3. both selective dissociation and association. Ref.
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