Dead End Diplomacy: Nyerere, Nkrumah, and Asymmetric Sincerity in the Commonwealth Peace Mission to Vietnam.
A study of efforts by Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah and Tanzania’s president Julius Nyerere to facilitate peace negotiations in Vietnam in the 1960s demonstrates the utility of Brantly Womack’s theory of asymmetric inter-state relationships as a means of understanding diplomacy. The essay addition...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 393 - 424 |
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Trustees of Boston University, acting through its African Studies Center
2022
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