THE ORIGINS OF THE ANGOLAN CIVIL WAR: FOREIGN INTERVENTION AND DOMESTIC POLITICAL CONFLICT, 1961-76.

An investigation of the origins of the Angolan civil war of 1975-76. By looking at the interaction between internal and external factors, it reveals the domestic roots of the conflict and the impact of foreign intervention on the civil war. The formative influence of colonialism and anti-colonialism on the emergence of Angolan rivalry since 1961 is described, and the externalization of that power struggle is analysed from a perspective of both international and domestic politics.

FERNANDO ANDRESEN GUIMARAES is currently a Special Attaché for Political Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Portugal to the United Nations. He served as an advisor to the President of the 50th Session of the UN General Assembly. In 1994, he was seconded to the UN as a consultant to the Angolan Peace talks in Zambia which led to the Lusaka Protocol. He was a UN electoral observer in Angola in 1992.