Mozambique and RENAMO : should the Reagan Doctrine apply?

Mozambique and RENAMO : should the Reagan Doctrine apply?

DigitalGeorgetown Repository

Mozambique and RENAMO : should the Reagan Doctrine apply?

dc.contributor	WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)	en_US
dc.contributor	Blackwell Corporation (Washington D.C.)	en_US
dc.contributor	Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service	en_US
dc.contributor	South Carolina Educational Television Network	en_US
dc.coverage.spatial	Africa	en_US
dc.coverage.spatial	Southern Africa	en_US
dc.coverage.spatial	Mozambique	en_US
dc.creator	Jack Wheeler (Interviewee)	en_US
dc.creator	Herbert M. Howe (Interviewee)	en_US
dc.creator	Krogh, Peter F. (Peter Frederic) (Moderator)	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2012-01-20T22:50:27Z
dc.date.available	2012-01-20T22:50:27Z
dc.date.created	1986-11-08	en_US
dc.date.issued	1986-11-08
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10822/552625
dc.description	After gaining independence from Portugal in 1975 Mozambique fell under the Marxist rule of Samora Machel. Yet despite the Reagan Doctrine of aiding anti-Communist movements in countries aligned with the Soviet Union, Washington refused to support the seemingly pro-western, pro-market Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO), instead attempting to lure the government outside the Soviet sphere of influence with economic aid. Because RENAMO was receiving assistance from the South African government, the State Department feared that intervention on RENAMO's behalf would be seen as backing South Africa, thus jeopardizing the United States' position of opposing apartheid. However, critics argued that RENAMO was a democratic movement on the verge of overthrowing a Soviet client state, and that a RENAMO victory would show the world that the Soviet Union and its Brezhnev Doctrine were not invincible. In this episode, guests Jack Wheeler of the Freedom Research Foundation and Professor Herbert Howe, head of the African studies program at Georgetown University examine the question, is it in America's interests to intervene in RENAMO's fight against the Marxist government?	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Examines the question of American intervention in the civil war between the Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) and the Marxist Government.	en_US
dc.format.extent	28 min.	en_US
dc.format.medium	MPG4 H.264	en_US
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.relation	Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archive	en_US
dc.relation.uri	https://mediapilot.georgetown.edu:443/sharestream2gui/getMedia.do?action=streamMedia&mediaPath=0d21b6201a7561f9011b55c690640eb4&cid=0d21b62018c663370119bf04f6be0a8b
dc.source	American Interests (show 606)	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	Civil war -- Mozambique	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	United States -- Foreign relations -- Mozambique	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	Mozambique -- Foreign relations -- United States	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-1989	en_US
dc.subject.other	Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO)	en_US
dc.subject.other	Samora Machel	en_US
dc.subject.other	Ronald Reagan	en_US
dc.title	Mozambique and RENAMO : should the Reagan Doctrine apply?	en_US
dc.coverage	Conflict and War	en_US
dc.coverage	International Diplomacy	en_US
dc.coverage	United States Role in the World	en_US