Rhodesia And United States Foreign Policy

Considers problems associated with continued U.S. diplomatic and economic relations with apartheid government in Rhodesia, and considers effects of U.S. economic sanctions against Rhodesia.

Considers problems associated with continued U.S. diplomatic and economic relations with apartheid government in Rhodesia, and considers effects of U.S. economic sanctions against Rhodesia.

"No area of the world has been viewed by Americans with greater moral disapproval and yet less attention than southern Africa," writes Anthony Lake in the introduction to The "Tar Baby" Option. Feeling that there is much to be learned from an examination of the American response to the Rhodesian problem, he offers a detailed account of America's Southern Rhodesia policy since the Smith government's unilateral declaration of independence from Great Britain in 1965. The book provides information essential to an understanding of the American approach to the current crisis in the region. The author's use of previously undisclosed materials and interviews with U.S. foreign policymakers gives the reader an inside look not only at the Rhodesian question but also at the politics of American foreign policy.

Considers problems associated with continued U.S. diplomatic and economic relations with apartheid government in Rhodesia, and considers effects of U.S. economic sanctions against Rhodesia.