| | |  | Maritime Security | Home » » The United States in Africa: Bush Policy and Beyond (African Arguments) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | This book examines the George W. Bush administration's claim to have made major new contributions to health, development, democracy and peace in Sub-Saharan Africa. Though aid has increased and a major AIDS initiative launched, Copson argues that foreign aid is losing its focus on development as political priorities come to the fore; U.S. barriers to African exports remain substantial; and the AIDS program is unilateral and ideologically controversial. Increasingly military approaches to fighting the "Global War on Terror" in Africa and securing energy imports carries serious risks for the region. Copson concludes by assessing the prospects of a more equitable policy emerging in future administrations.
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| Raymond W. Copson | | Paperback:
| 176 pages | | Publisher:
| Zed Books | | Publication Date:
| July 15, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
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Jaded View of U.S. Africa PolicyNov 29, 2008
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"The United States in Africa" is a brief but well-informed critique of the Bush Administration's Africa policy. The author, Ray Copson, is a well-known "Africanist," who worked for years at the Congressional Research Service. He understands how policy is formed (and deformed) in DC. He knows how policy plays out on the ground in Africa. He can pick apart a budget, navigate jargon (ACOTA, PEPFAR, ECOWAS, AGOA, etc.), and separate cant from reality. In short, he has everything needed to write a smart "insider/outsider's" book -- and that's exactly what he's done.
Readers should know, however, that the book isn't really a history of U.S. relations with Africa since 2001. Instead, Copson takes stock of U.S. policy, asking whether it has been just and fair. He wants to know whether the U.S., as the richest and most powerful country on earth, has done enough to bring peace and a better life to Africans. He concludes that the U.S. has fallen short in many areas, from development assistance to democracy promotion. However, he doesn't single out the Bush Administration for blame. Most U.S. administrations have failed Africa.
The book's only real shortcoming is a querulous tone that mars a few sections. The discussion of Bush's (idiotic) abstinence policy, for example, takes up more space than the discussion of ARV programs, which are keeping alive thousands of people with AIDS. Similarly, Copson devotes more pages to chastizing the slow U.S. response to Darfur than he does to the diplomacy that brought peace to Southern Sudan.
Maybe it's inevitable that anyone specializing in Africa will grow bitter over time and despair of ever seeing a constructive U.S. policy. However, Copson's occasional glass-half-empty negativism was enough of a problem for me to knock one star off my review. Otherwise, his book is highly recommended.
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