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U.S. Foreign Policy toward Africa Since World War II : Challenges and Prospects

  • Korea and Global Affairs
  • Abbr : KGA
  • 2020, 4(3), pp.215-242
  • DOI : 10.22718/kga.2020.4.3.008
  • Publisher : Korea Institute of Politics and Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : April 30, 2020
  • Accepted : June 3, 2020
  • Published : June 30, 2020

Mabre Tade 1 Kim, Il-su 2

1Woldia University
2충북대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This paper assesses the U.S. foreign policy towards Africa. It gives special attention to the factors that led to the slow progress of U.S.-Africa relations. For this purpose, we discuss the trends of relations since the end of WWII. Some experts on U.S.-Africa relations claimed that the cooperation between the U.S. and Africa is becoming comprehensive and progressing steadily. But, this paper strongly argues that U.S.-Africa relation is showing slow progress due to the U.S. absence of the tradition of long term strategic policy and overarching vision towards Africa. As a result of this, their relations have been confined to areas such as humanitarian aid, and short term collaborations on emerging issues including transnational crime, terrorism, and endemic diseases.

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