ABSTRACT
Moreover, foreign powers have often intervened directly in conflicts, supplying arms and other instruments of violence. Some internal conflicts, such as those in Angola, Afghanistan and El Salvador, have been as much external as domestic in nature, with the intensity, scope and duration of these conflicts affected by the interaction between domestic events and external responses. The post-World War II era was characterised by external interventionist behaviour that transformed the nature of civil wars between the state and rival guerrilla organisations, by distorting the internal power struggles into an East versus West pattern.
