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Chester Crocker
Crocker in 2006
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
In office
June 9, 1981 – April 21, 1989
PresidentRonald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
Preceded byRichard M. Moose
Succeeded byHerman Jay Cohen
Personal details
Born (1941-10-29) October 29, 1941 (age 82)
New York
Political partyRepublican
OccupationDiplomat

Chester Arthur Crocker (born October 29, 1941) is an American diplomat and scholar who served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 9, 1981, to April 21, 1989, in the Reagan administration.[1] Crocker, architect of the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement" towards Southern Africa including apartheid-era South Africa, is credited with setting the terms of Namibian independence.[2][3]

  1. ^ Office of the Historian. "Chester A. Crocker". history.state.gov. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Episode 25 - Chester Crocker". United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  3. ^ Kaela, Laurent C.W. (1993). "The United States and the Decolonization of Namibia: The Reagan Years". Transafrican Journal of History. 22: 122–141. ISSN 0251-0391. JSTOR 24328640.

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