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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23319</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2020-20-1-11-21</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THEMATIC DOSSIER</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ ДОСЬЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The Cold War and Africa’s Political Culture</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Холодная война и политическая культура Африки</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kalu</surname><given-names>Kenneth</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Калу</surname><given-names>Кеннет</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Management</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">доктор философии, доцент, департамент глобального менеджмента</bio><email>kenneth.kalu@ryerson.ca</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Школа менеджмента Теда Роджерса, Университет Райерсон</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2020-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>20</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Decolonization, Neocolonialism and Recolonization: 60th Anniversary of the Year of Africa</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Деколонизация, неоколониализм и реколонизация: к 60-летию Года Африки</issue-title><fpage>11</fpage><lpage>21</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2020-03-30"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2020, Kalu K.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2020, Калу К.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kalu K.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Калу К.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/23319">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/23319</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">Leadership and political systems in most of Africa have been described in several negative ways. Paternalism, clientelism, dictatorship, corruption and such pejorative labels have been used to described the type of politics prevalent in most of Africa today. A number of studies have explained Africa’s political challenges in the context of the choices of postcolonial African leaders. Others have pointed to European colonial exploitation and its destructive legacies as the foundations of the perverse political culture that define contemporary Africa. While these factors play important roles in defining the type of politics that has endured in the continent during the past half century, this paper takes a look at another epoch that had significant impacts on Africa’s political culture. The paper argues that the foreign policies of the United States and USSR - two major actors in Africa during the Cold War - had some of the most significant impacts on the political culture that evolved in postcolonial Africa. In pursuit of ideological supremacy, these foreign actors focused on undermining each other, with little consideration on how their actions in Africa were shaping the continent’s political development. By providing military support to opposing forces in African countries, the Cold War actors institutionalized a violent political culture in postcolonial Africa.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">Лидерство и политические системы в большинстве стран Африки описываются, как правило, в негативном ключе. Патернализм, клиентелизм, диктатура, коррупция и подобные уничижительные ярлыки используются для описания политических практик, получивших распространение в большинстве стран Африки сегодня. В ряде исследований политические проблемы Африки объясняются в контексте выбора постколониальных африканских лидеров. Другие исследователи указывают на европейскую колониальную эксплуатацию и ее разрушительное наследие как основы порочной политической культуры, определяющей современную Африку. Хотя эти факторы играют важную роль в определении типа политики, которая проводилась на континенте в течение последних 60 лет, в данной статье рассматривается еще одна эпоха, которая оказала значительное влияние на политическую культуру современной Африки. В статье показано, что внешняя политика Соединенных Штатов и СССР - двух основных действующих лиц в Африке во время холодной войны - также оказала значительное влияние на политическую культуру, сложившуюся в постколониальной Африке. Стремясь к идеологическому превосходству, эти внешние акторы сосредоточились на том, чтобы подрывать влияние друг друга, и мало думали о том, как их действия в Африке формируют политическое развитие континента. Предоставляя военную поддержку противостоящим силам в африканских странах, участники холодной войны институционализировали насильственную политическую культуру в постколониальной Африке.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Africa</kwd><kwd>Cold War</kwd><kwd>colonialism</kwd><kwd>USA</kwd><kwd>USSR</kwd><kwd>foreign policy</kwd><kwd>politics</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Африка</kwd><kwd>холодная война</kwd><kwd>колониализм</kwd><kwd>США</kwd><kwd>СССР</kwd><kwd>внешняя политика</kwd><kwd>политика</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Acemoglu, D. &amp; Robinson, J. (2010). Why is Africa Poor. Economic History of Developing Regions, 25 (1), 21-50. DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2010.505010</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S. &amp; Robinson, J. (2001). The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation. 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