'A great list of potential mistakes': NATO, Africa, and British efforts to limit the Global Cold War. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sayle, Timothy Andrews
• Is Part Of: Cold War history. Volume 16:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 19
• Page End: 36
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Cold War -- Periodicals; World politics -- 1945- -- Periodicals; 940.55
• DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2015.1078313
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-2745

Abstract

Abstract : The scholarly consensus on why NATO adopted a 'non-policy' towards the non-North Atlantic world rests on the logic of the Cold War. But British diplomats and officials did not see NATO's policy towards Africa through a Cold War lens. NATO's 'non-policy' towards the world beyond the North Atlantic was not the product of an allied Cold War consensus among the allies. Instead, it was the result of a determined British effort to channel growing pressure for NATO action into a bureaucratic dead-end in an effort to keep the Cold War out of Africa.