U.S. Policy in Postcolonial Africa - Four Case Studies in Conflict Resolution (Paperback)

This book, a concise examination of U.S. policy in contemporary Africa, delineates various aspects of the role that the U.S. played in exacerbating and/or resolving violent conflicts in postcolonial Africa and provides a succinct historical overview of these armed conflicts. F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam devotes considerable attention of four specific conflicts in Ethiopia-Somalia, the Western Sahara, Angola, and Rwanda and to the Clinton administration's African Crisis Response Initiative and its sequel under George W. Bush. The book concludes that lack of congruence between local forces in conflict in Africa, as well as U.S. aims in those conflicts, was only one of the constraints on the United States in its attempts at conflict resolution. America's counterproductive Cold War policies also defined relations with African states for far too long. Hence, the conflicts in postcolonial Africa became part of the legacy of those policies even as African problems continued to be low-priority concerns for the U.S. government. Libraries, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and professors, of African studies, as well as the general reader, will find this book useful.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2004
First published:	May 2004
Authors:	F. Ugboaja. Ohaegbulam
Dimensions:	152 x 225 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-8204-7091-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Military life & institutions > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8204-7091-0
Barcode:	9780820470917

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