La politique américaine à l'égard de l'Afrique : continuité et changement, 1958-1988

Abstract

Africa in US Policy Making : Questions of Continuity and Changes, 1958-1988, by Robert J. Cummings The purpose of this paper is to analyse issues of continuity and change in America's Africa policy. It argues that the lack of an historical perspective, based on real US national-interests, forces one to note critically, and with a sense of déjà vu, that US administrations have proven themselves incapable of creating an Africa-specific policy. Such a policy would require serious change in the US policy approach toward Africa. And historically, there has not been a domestic power group sufficiently placed politically to force such a change in US Africa policy making.