U.S. and Soviet Scholars on Africa

Issue: A Journal of Opinion · Volume 17, Issue 1 (1988) · pp. 28–32

DOI: 10.1017/s0047160700500821

Abstract

<jats:p>A week before the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Washington, a group of American and Soviet scholars met in Moscow to explore how a new spirit of cooperation could be applied in Africa. The challenge was to find ways of transforming the well-established pattern of hostile competition between the two countries in that area of the world into one of collaboration for the mutual benefit of both countries and Africa. The results of the Moscow workshop are highly promising.</jats:p>