Faculty Affiliate publishes article in Cold War History journal

Dr. Eisenman notes that beginning in the mid-1950s, the Chinese Communist Party created front groups to administer its political outreach in Africa to oppose colonialism and US imperialism.  This strategy then evolved to combat Soviet hegemony in the 1960s and 1970s.  Dr. Eisenman argues that these policy shifts “were motivated primarily by life-or-death intraparty struggles among rival political factions in Beijing and the party’s pursuit of external sources of regime legitimacy.”

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