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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Adedeji, Adebayo,; Akinyemi, Bolaji,; Aksiuk, Leonid N.,; Akwule, Raymond U.,; Albright, David E.,; Alikhanova, Tamara A.,; Bender, Gerald J.,; Bergen, Geoffrey,; Goncharov, Leongard,; Goncharov, Victor I.,; Gromyko, Anatoly A.,; Halisi, C. R. D.,; Intriligator, Michael D.,; Johnson, Craig A.,; Kale, Oladele O.,; Kokorev, Vladimir B.,; Lancaster, Carol,; Lisevich, A. M.,; Lofchie, Michael F.,; Madavo, Callisto,; Makinda, Samuel M.,; Nolutshungu, Sam C.,; Ogunbadejo, Oye,; Ossipov, Juri M.,; Palmer, Valerie S.,; Potter, William C.,; Sklar, Richard L.,; Smirnov, Gleb V.,; Spencer, Peter S.,; Tarabrin, Yevgeny A.,; Tidiane Sy, Cheikh,; Tindwa, Robert M.,; Whitaker, C. S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gromyko, Anatoly A.,; Whitaker, C.S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

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

Table of 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