Changing American Assessments of The Soviet Threat in Sub-Saharan Africa

This work categorizes various American images of the Soviet threat in Africa and traces them over time. Four different images are examined: the alarmist, the globalist, the regionalist, and the confident regionalist. Jordan points to the importance of understanding what these images are and how they influence and determine U.S. foreign policy decisions. Will be useful to strategic theorists, Africanists, and analysts of U.S. foreign policy.