Agenda for Action : African-Soviet-U.S. Cooperation / ed. by C.S. Whitaker, Anatoly A. Gromyko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adedeji, Adebayo, Contributor.

Akinyemi, A. Bolaji, Contributor.

Aksiuk, Leonid N., Contributor.

Akwule, Raymond U., Contributor.

Albright, David E., Contributor.

Alikhanova, Tamara A., Contributor.

Bender, Gerald J., Contributor.

Bergen, Geoffrey, Contributor.

Goncharov, Leongard, Contributor.

Goncharov, Victor I., Contributor.

Gromyko, Anatoly A., Contributor.

Gromyko, Anatoly A., Editor.

Halisi, C. R. D., Contributor.

Intriligator, Michael D., Contributor.

Johnson, Craig A., Contributor.

Kale, Oladele O., Contributor.

Kokorev, Vladimir B., Contributor.

Lancaster, Carol, Contributor.

Lisevich, A. M., Contributor.

Lofchie, Michael F., Contributor.

Madavo, Callisto, Contributor.

Makinda, Samuel M., Contributor.

Nolutshungu, Sam C., Contributor.

Ogunbadejo, Oye, Contributor.

Ossipov, Juri M., Contributor.

Palmer, Valerie S., Contributor.

Potter, William C., Contributor.

Sklar, Richard L., Contributor.

Smirnov, Gleb V., Contributor.

Spencer, Peter S., Contributor.

Tarabrin, Yevgeny A., Contributor.

Tidiane Sy, Cheikh, Contributor.

Tindwa, Robert M., Contributor.

Whitaker, C. S., Contributor.

Whitaker, C.S., Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Explores ways for the African countries, the Soviet Union, and the United States to cooperate in addressing critical problems besetting Africa.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1 An Agenda for Cooperative Action in Africa

PART 1 The Agrarian Sector

2 Food Deficits in Africa: Causes and Remedies

3 Development of Food Production and Distribution in the Agrarian Sector

4 Food Production and Distribution: The Case of Senegal

PART 2 The Environment

5 Activities to Foster Environmental Protection

6 Environmental Problems in Africa: Disposal of Industrial Wastes

7 Addressing the Crisis of Desertification in Africa

8 Measures for Desertification Control

PART 3 Debt and Development

9 The African Debt Crisis, Structural Adjustment, and Economic Development

10 Debt and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

11 The Debt of Low-Income Africa: Profile, Problems, Prospects

PART 4 Mineral Resources and Development

12 Solving Africa's Priority Problems Through the Development of Mineral Resources and Industry

13 Mineral Industries and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

14 The Role of Industrial Minerals in the Economy of a Developing Country: The Case of Zimbabwe

PART 5 Communications

15 African Communications in an Information Age: What Role for a Joint Soviet-U.S. Development Program?

16 The Modernizing Link: Cooperation in Telecommunications Development in Africa

PART 6 Health and Epidemics

17 Epidemic Diseases in Africa: Their Impact on Human Health and Productivity

18 Health and Epidemics in Africa: Lessons from Environmentally Triggered Paralysis

PART 7 Nuclear Nonproliferation

19 Africa and Nuclear Nonproliferation

20 Cooperation for Nonproliferation in Africa

21 Nuclear Nonproliferation in Africa

PART 8 Arms Transfers

22 Cooperation on Arms Transfers to Africa

23 Arms Transfers and Reductions in Africa's Military Spending

24 Arms Transfers to Africa

PART 9 Development and Security in Southern Africa

25 Southern Africa in the Context of Soviet-U.S. Relations

26 Cooperation for Southern African Development and Regional Security

27 The Southern African Development Coordination Conference and African Security

28 Namibian Independence and Soviet-U.S. Cooperation

PART 10 Conclusions

29 Cooperation for Africa as a Confidence-Building Measure

30 From Confrontation to Cooperation: The Possibilities

31 Let Us Cooperate

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)

ISBN:

1-68585-559-8

OCLC:

1378176576