This book outlines the construction, interpretations and
understanding of US strategy towards Africa in the early
twenty-first century.
No single issue or event in the recent decades in Africa has
provoked so much controversy and unified hostility and opposition
as the announcement by former President George W. Bush of the
establishment of the United Stated Africa Command - AFRICOM. The
intensity and sheer scale of the unprecedented unity of opposition
to AFRICOM across Africa surprised many experts and lead them to
ask why such a hostile reaction occurred.
This book explores the conception of AFRICOM and the subsequent
reaction in two ways. Firstly, the contributors critically engage
with the creation and global imperatives for the establishment of
AFRICOM and present an analytical outline of African security in
relation to and within the context of the history of US foreign and
security policy approaches to Africa. Secondly, the book has
original chapter contributions by some of the key actors involved
in the development and implementation of the AFRICOM project
including Theresa Whelan, the former US Deputy Assistant Secretary
for African Affairs. This is not only an attempt to contribute to
the academic and policy-relevant debates based on the views of
those who are intimately involved in the design and implementation
of the AFRICOM project but also to show, in their own words, that
'America has no clandestine agenda for Africa'.
This book will be of interest to students of US foreign
policy/national security, strategic studies, international security
and African politics.
David J. Francis is Chair of African Peace & Conflict
Studies in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of
Bradford.
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