Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms
- Maps
- 1 An introduction to US foreign policy toward Africa
- 2 Pattern and process in US foreign policy toward Africa
- 3 US foreign policy toward Zaire
- 4 US Foreign policy toward Ethiopia and Somalia
- 5 US foreign policy toward South Africa
- 6 US Africa policies in the post-Cold War era
- Appendix A Note on method
- Appendix B Note on interview techniques
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
1 - An introduction to US foreign policy toward Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms
- Maps
- 1 An introduction to US foreign policy toward Africa
- 2 Pattern and process in US foreign policy toward Africa
- 3 US foreign policy toward Zaire
- 4 US Foreign policy toward Ethiopia and Somalia
- 5 US foreign policy toward South Africa
- 6 US Africa policies in the post-Cold War era
- Appendix A Note on method
- Appendix B Note on interview techniques
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Summary
No other continent has been so consistently ignored by our policy-makers, and yet none but Europe has been so continually connected to important developments in America, from the founding of the Republic in the era of the Atlantic slave trade to the inauguration of training exercises for the new Rapid Deployment Force.
Introduction
As the nationalist urges of independence movements swept the countries of Africa during the 1950s and these so-called “winds of change” marked the beginning of the end of European colonialism, two politicians of widely divergent political perspectives underscored the necessity of rethinking US foreign policy toward the continent. “For too many years,” Vice President Richard M. Nixon noted in 1957 after returning from a twenty-two day tour of the African continent, “Africa in the minds of many Americans has been regarded as a remote and mysterious continent which was the special province of big game hunters, explorers and motion picture makers.” Recognizing the importance of an emerging Africa in the international scene — especially within the context of the East—West struggle — Nixon recommended that President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorize the creation of a separate Bureau of African Affairs within the State Department, an idea which reached fruition in 1958.
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- United States Foreign Policy toward AfricaIncrementalism, Crisis and Change, pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994
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