The internationalization of domestic issues and the permeability of sovereign (especially small and weak) states created opportunities for big power involvement in Africa on a scale and of a scope unknown even during the cold war. The Angola crisis illustrated also the expansionist mood of the Soviet Union and the timidity of the United States. It would be the height of irony if independence and non-alignment signaled more, rather than less, big power intrusion. - W. A. E. Skurnik, in his November 1976 article for Current History, Africa and the Superpowers.
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