1. James A. Baker III, with Thomas M. DeFrank, The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989–1992 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995), pp. 71–74.
2. On symbolic nature of regional conflicts see Robert Jervis, The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospects of Armageddon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 174–225,
3. and Dominoes and Bandwagons: Strategic Beliefa and Great Power Competition in the Eurasian Rimland, eds. Robert Jervis and Jack Snyder (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
4. John Marcum, The Angolan Revolution, Volume 2: Exile Politics and Guerilla Warfare, 1962–1976 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978).
5. See Barnett R. Rubin, The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation & Collapse in the International System (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995), pp. 111–21.