The machinery of external control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11904494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Allen (0000-0002-1296-8989) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 75 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056249808704289 |
| OpenAlex | W2088705544 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
With the end of the cold war, the US lost one key element of its Africa policy, containment of communism, though another remains ensuring sufficient control over African economies and economic policy that US interests are thereby served. As with much of US Africa policy, such control is exerted increasingly through intermediary bodies. In the initial post-independence decades the chosen intermediary was often a metropolitan power or even an African state, though economic goals tended to be left to US diplomats and companies, as David Gibbs demonstrated in ROAPE 72. Since the late 1970s however, the US has tended to secure its economic interests more through the IFIs, and its influence over international trade regimes, such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This reflects a declining US direct economic presence within Africa as trade, loan and investment flows have declined
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2001 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |