• POSTINDEPENDENCE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
• Establishment of a Personalistic Regime
• The Party-State as a System of Rule
• POLITICAL REFORM IN THE 1990s
• Proclamation of the Third Republic
• Subsequent Political Developments, 1990-93
• STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT
• The Presidency
• The National Executive Council
• The Legislature
• The Judiciary and the Courts
• Local Government
• POLITICAL DYNAMICS
• Managing the Military
• Opposition to the Regime prior to 1990
• Armed Opposition
• Fragmented Exile Movements
• The UDPS
• Opposition since 1990
• Interest Groups
• Organized Labor
• Religious Groups
• Students
• Ethnic Groups
• Other Interest Groups
• The Media
• FOREIGN POLICY
• Relations with the West
• Relations with Belgium
• Relations with France
• Relations with the United States
• Relations with the Communist World
• Regional Relations
• Involvement in the Angolan Civil War
• Relations with Angola since the War
• Relations with Other Neighbors
• Relations with North Africa

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