Great Powers and US Foreign Policy towards Africa

• Main Author: Magu, Stephen M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: International relations.; Africa-Politics and government.; Diplomacy.; Comparative politics.; Foreign Policy.; African Politics.; International Relations Theory.; Comparative Politics.

This book addresses one main question: whether the United States has a cohesive foreign policy for Africa. In assessing the history of the United States and its interactions with the continent, particularly with the Horn of Africa, the author casts doubt on whether successive US administrations had...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Introduction
• 2: Order (and Disorder) in World Order
• 3: Great Powers, International Order and Stability: Transformation?
• 4: A Brief History of US-Africa Relations: To 1990
• 5: Post-Colonialism, Europe and Africa: Changing Policyscapes
• 6: Detour: The BRICs and New Directions in Africa Foreign Policy
• 7: Tunnel's End: A Light, or an Oncoming Train? US Africa Foreign Policy since 2000
• 8: Great Powers and US Foreign Policy Towards Africa.