US Policies toward Africa: Strategic Interests and Divisive Strategies

Abstract

This paper analyses US-Africa relations from the end of the Cold War up to the current war on terror. It focuses on Washington’s national and international foreign policies on development aid for sub-Saharan Africa. While it reviews some common criticisms levied against the United States’ development policies, especially those centred on strategic state-interests, it also takes a parallel step into the field of development with the aim of examining the advice that the field has to offer for US-Africa policies. This appraisal finds that the field of development is characterized by internal divisiveness on a pragmatic agenda for US foreign policy. It goes on to explain how this internal debate contributes to and abets the US’ ability to get away with strategic and self-interested behaviour in an area that calls, instead, for sensitised humanitarianism.

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