Daniel Volman
Biographic Data
| ID | 173120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Volman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Volman |
| SIGNATURE | VOLMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Security Studies |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-9376-9059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Send more guns: Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget plan for Africa
This paper examines US security policy toward Africa. It describes and analyses US security assistance to Africa and Biden’s security assistance budget request for Africa for Fiscal Year 2024. It also reports testimony of the commander of Africom at the hearings on the budget request held before the US House and US Senate Armed Services Committee in March 2023
America, China & the Scramble for Africa's Oil
After decades of Cold War, when Africa was simply viewed as a convenient pawn on the global chessboard, and a further decade of benign neglect in the 1990s, the African continent has now become a vital arena of strategic and geopolitical competition for not only the United States, but also for China, India, and other new emerging powers. The main reason for this is quite simple: Africa is the final frontier as far as the world's supplies of energ…
The African ‘oil rush’ and US national security
The world's major oil-consuming nations, led by the USA, China and the Western European countries, are keenly interested in the development of African oil reserves, making huge bids for whatever exploration blocks become available and investing large sums in drilling platforms, pipelines, loading facilities and other production infrastructure. Indeed, the pursuit of African oil has taken on the character of a gold rush, with major companies from …
The Bush administration & African oil: The security implications of US energy policy
‘It's been reliably reported,’ former US Ambassador to Chad Donald R. Norland announced during a House Africa Subcommittee hearing in April 2002, ‘that, for the first time, the two concepts—’Africa‘ and ’U.S national security’—have been used in the same sentence in Pentagon documents.’ When US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Michael A. Westphal held a press briefing that same month, he noted that ‘fifteen per cent of the…
The Military in the Making of Modern South Africa
The United States and conflict in the Maghreb
Analysing the case of Western Sahara highlights the evolution of US policy towards the Maghreb; it demonstrates that American policy in the region has progressively shifted from reliance on multilateralism to a more pronounced unilateralism, although using the United Nations as an instrument to accomplish that objective. It also shows that the Bush Administration's espousal of the notion of a ‘New World Order’, and the Clinton Administration's ‘a…
Africa in World Politics: Post-Cold War Challenges
Introduction Africa in World Politics: Amidst Renewal, Deepening Crisis (John W. Harbeson.) Parameters Of African Peripheralization The Heritage of Colonialism (Crawford Young.) Africa and the World Political Economy: Still Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Thomas M. Callaghy.) Africa and Other Civilizations: Conquest and Counterconquest (Ali A. Mazrui.) Dependent by Default: Africas Relations with the European Union (John Ravenhill.) Regio…
Peacemaking in Civil War: International Mediation in Zimbabwe, 1974-1980
International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict
The war in the Western Sahara recently entered its sixteenth year. Although progress toward peace has been made, concrete steps to a final resolution have not yet occurred. This has had serious political, social, economic, and military consequences for the countries in the region. Despite the significance of the issue, until now very few scholarly works have dealt with the regional and international dimensions of the conflict. In particular, litt…
International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict
Introduction Origins and Development of the Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia H. Zoubir Spain, France, and the Western Sahara: A Historical Narrative and Study of National Transformation by Phillip C. Naylor The United States in the Saharan War: A Case of Low-Intensity Intervention by Stephen Zunes U.S. Strategic Interests and the War in the Western Sahara by Richard B. Parker Moscow, the Maghreb, and Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia…
Africa and the New World Order
Theend of the cold war and of the bi-polar world order that shaped international relations over the past 50 years is forcing the Government of the United States to make dramatic policy changes that affect all parts of the globe. In Africa, it is also confronted by significant new developments on local, regional, and continent-wide levels. Of particular concern to American leaders are increasing internal demands for political democracy, and the in…
The Farther Frontier: Six Case Studies of Americans and Africa, 1848-1936
A surprising number of Americans were involved with the so-called Dark Continent during the period when Western penetration led to conquest and colonial rule. The six Americans discussed are: Thomas Jefferson Bowen, who established the first American mission posts in Yorubaland; writer-explorer Paul du Chaillu; soldier-explorer Charles Chaille-Long; diplomat Henry Shelton Sanford; mining engineer John Hays Hammond; and taxidermist Carl Akeley. Il…
Decolonization and African Independence: The Transfers of Power, 1960-1980
Commanding the Center
Africa's Rising Status in American Defence Policy
Since the last American troops withdrew from Vietnam during 1975, the strategic value of Africa to the United States has steadily risen. As a result of the renewal of cold-war hostilities between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and an escalating series of crises for American foreign policy in the Third World, the African continent is now a principal battlefield for competition involving the United States, Western Europe (particularly France), Cuba, and…
America, China & the Scramble for Africa's Oil
After decades of Cold War, when Africa was simply viewed as a convenient pawn on the global chessboard, and a further decade of benign neglect in the 1990s, the African continent has now become a vital arena of strategic and geopolitical competition for not only the United States, but also for China, India, and other new emerging powers. The main reason for this is quite simple: Africa is the final frontier as far as the world's supplies of energ…
The Bush administration & African oil: The security implications of US energy policy
‘It's been reliably reported,’ former US Ambassador to Chad Donald R. Norland announced during a House Africa Subcommittee hearing in April 2002, ‘that, for the first time, the two concepts—’Africa‘ and ’U.S national security’—have been used in the same sentence in Pentagon documents.’ When US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Michael A. Westphal held a press briefing that same month, he noted that ‘fifteen per cent of the…
The African ‘oil rush’ and US national security
The world's major oil-consuming nations, led by the USA, China and the Western European countries, are keenly interested in the development of African oil reserves, making huge bids for whatever exploration blocks become available and investing large sums in drilling platforms, pipelines, loading facilities and other production infrastructure. Indeed, the pursuit of African oil has taken on the character of a gold rush, with major companies from …
International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict
Introduction Origins and Development of the Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia H. Zoubir Spain, France, and the Western Sahara: A Historical Narrative and Study of National Transformation by Phillip C. Naylor The United States in the Saharan War: A Case of Low-Intensity Intervention by Stephen Zunes U.S. Strategic Interests and the War in the Western Sahara by Richard B. Parker Moscow, the Maghreb, and Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia…
Decolonization and African Independence: The Transfers of Power, 1960-1980
The United States and conflict in the Maghreb
Analysing the case of Western Sahara highlights the evolution of US policy towards the Maghreb; it demonstrates that American policy in the region has progressively shifted from reliance on multilateralism to a more pronounced unilateralism, although using the United Nations as an instrument to accomplish that objective. It also shows that the Bush Administration's espousal of the notion of a ‘New World Order’, and the Clinton Administration's ‘a…
Africa and the New World Order
Theend of the cold war and of the bi-polar world order that shaped international relations over the past 50 years is forcing the Government of the United States to make dramatic policy changes that affect all parts of the globe. In Africa, it is also confronted by significant new developments on local, regional, and continent-wide levels. Of particular concern to American leaders are increasing internal demands for political democracy, and the in…
International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict
The war in the Western Sahara recently entered its sixteenth year. Although progress toward peace has been made, concrete steps to a final resolution have not yet occurred. This has had serious political, social, economic, and military consequences for the countries in the region. Despite the significance of the issue, until now very few scholarly works have dealt with the regional and international dimensions of the conflict. In particular, litt…
Commanding the Center
Africa's Rising Status in American Defence Policy
Since the last American troops withdrew from Vietnam during 1975, the strategic value of Africa to the United States has steadily risen. As a result of the renewal of cold-war hostilities between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and an escalating series of crises for American foreign policy in the Third World, the African continent is now a principal battlefield for competition involving the United States, Western Europe (particularly France), Cuba, and…
Decolonization and African Independence: The Transfers of Power, 1960-1980
International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict
The war in the Western Sahara recently entered its sixteenth year. Although progress toward peace has been made, concrete steps to a final resolution have not yet occurred. This has had serious political, social, economic, and military consequences for the countries in the region. Despite the significance of the issue, until now very few scholarly works have dealt with the regional and international dimensions of the conflict. In particular, litt…
International Dimensions of the Western Sahara Conflict
Introduction Origins and Development of the Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia H. Zoubir Spain, France, and the Western Sahara: A Historical Narrative and Study of National Transformation by Phillip C. Naylor The United States in the Saharan War: A Case of Low-Intensity Intervention by Stephen Zunes U.S. Strategic Interests and the War in the Western Sahara by Richard B. Parker Moscow, the Maghreb, and Conflict in the Western Sahara by Yahia…
Africa and the New World Order
Theend of the cold war and of the bi-polar world order that shaped international relations over the past 50 years is forcing the Government of the United States to make dramatic policy changes that affect all parts of the globe. In Africa, it is also confronted by significant new developments on local, regional, and continent-wide levels. Of particular concern to American leaders are increasing internal demands for political democracy, and the in…
The Farther Frontier: Six Case Studies of Americans and Africa, 1848-1936
A surprising number of Americans were involved with the so-called Dark Continent during the period when Western penetration led to conquest and colonial rule. The six Americans discussed are: Thomas Jefferson Bowen, who established the first American mission posts in Yorubaland; writer-explorer Paul du Chaillu; soldier-explorer Charles Chaille-Long; diplomat Henry Shelton Sanford; mining engineer John Hays Hammond; and taxidermist Carl Akeley. Il…
Peacemaking in Civil War: International Mediation in Zimbabwe, 1974-1980
Africa in World Politics: Post-Cold War Challenges
Introduction Africa in World Politics: Amidst Renewal, Deepening Crisis (John W. Harbeson.) Parameters Of African Peripheralization The Heritage of Colonialism (Crawford Young.) Africa and the World Political Economy: Still Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Thomas M. Callaghy.) Africa and Other Civilizations: Conquest and Counterconquest (Ali A. Mazrui.) Dependent by Default: Africas Relations with the European Union (John Ravenhill.) Regio…
The United States and conflict in the Maghreb
Analysing the case of Western Sahara highlights the evolution of US policy towards the Maghreb; it demonstrates that American policy in the region has progressively shifted from reliance on multilateralism to a more pronounced unilateralism, although using the United Nations as an instrument to accomplish that objective. It also shows that the Bush Administration's espousal of the notion of a ‘New World Order’, and the Clinton Administration's ‘a…
The Military in the Making of Modern South Africa
The Bush administration & African oil: The security implications of US energy policy
‘It's been reliably reported,’ former US Ambassador to Chad Donald R. Norland announced during a House Africa Subcommittee hearing in April 2002, ‘that, for the first time, the two concepts—’Africa‘ and ’U.S national security’—have been used in the same sentence in Pentagon documents.’ When US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Michael A. Westphal held a press briefing that same month, he noted that ‘fifteen per cent of the…
America, China & the Scramble for Africa's Oil
After decades of Cold War, when Africa was simply viewed as a convenient pawn on the global chessboard, and a further decade of benign neglect in the 1990s, the African continent has now become a vital arena of strategic and geopolitical competition for not only the United States, but also for China, India, and other new emerging powers. The main reason for this is quite simple: Africa is the final frontier as far as the world's supplies of energ…
The African ‘oil rush’ and US national security
The world's major oil-consuming nations, led by the USA, China and the Western European countries, are keenly interested in the development of African oil reserves, making huge bids for whatever exploration blocks become available and investing large sums in drilling platforms, pipelines, loading facilities and other production infrastructure. Indeed, the pursuit of African oil has taken on the character of a gold rush, with major companies from …
Send more guns: Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget plan for Africa
This paper examines US security policy toward Africa. It describes and analyses US security assistance to Africa and Biden’s security assistance budget request for Africa for Fiscal Year 2024. It also reports testimony of the commander of Africom at the hearings on the budget request held before the US House and US Senate Armed Services Committee in March 2023
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