Abstract EN:

The amplification of soviet and american commitments and strategies of control has turned africa into one of their privileged battlegrounds where a revived "condominium" is to be consecrated. After the miscalculation of the potential for revolution in africa, the U. S. S. R. Had to forgo its revolutionary proselytism and alternative model; in instead, the U. S. S. R. Has to suggest an atypical way based on ideological substitues, and to carry out a power policy centered on presence and on support for groups waving the communist banner in their struggles. Divided between their ideals and own interests as well as those of their allies, the U. S. A. Have confined themselves to a sort of "firebreak" strategy drawn from containment. Differing in their foudations and objectives but similar by their approaches and use of levers, these strategies which are often more empirical than formulated are furthered by the convergence of political and military interests an well as by the instability which is in fact the primary limiting element of foreign influences.