• Americanizing Africanization : the Congo crisis, 1960-1967 

    Mountz, William T. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
    This dissertation provides a concise account of U.S. intervention in the Congo between 1960 and 1967, explaining the decisions made by U.S. policymakers and their Congolese counterparts. It argues that the intervention ...
  • The birth and death of a tar baby : Henry Kissinger and southern Africa 

    Dowdall, Aaron T., 1983- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    This thesis is an examination of Henry Kissinger and his foreign policy toward southern Africa, using the civil war in Angola in 1975 as a case study. It interrogates the influence of race, ideology, and culture on the ...