To compliment Halperin’s discussion of the role of destabalization of African countries with the large import of cheap weapons during the Cold War in her chapter “The Globalization Redux,” there is another aspect of the fall of the USSR that greatly impacted the stability of African governments: the withdrawal of Soviet troops.
This is an intriguing article because it discusses the impact of the loss of Soviet military support for the constrcution of modern day African countries, namely Angola. The article states: “In other countries, like Ethiopia, when the Soviet Union stopped backing the government, rulers were quickly ousted. Other Soviet-backed leaders, such as Benin’s Mathieu Kerekou, renounced Marxism and then lost multi-party elections.” Thus this period of the rise of new movements is also impacted by the loss of Soviet-supported regimes. This withdrawal of troops and funding is just one of many impacts of the collapse of the USSR.