Implications of the 2012 U.S. Election for U.S. Policy in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20098912 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges Nzongola‐ntalaja (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-191 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/asr.2013.50 |
| OpenAlex | W2087949263 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
While Africans are generally satisfied that a person of African descent was reelected to the White House following a campaign in which vicious and racist attacks were made against him, the U.S. Africa policy under President Barack Obama will continue to be guided by the strategic interests of the United States, which are not necessarily compatible with the popular aspirations for democracy, peace, and prosperity in Africa. Obama’s policy in the Great Lakes region provides an excellent illustration of this point. Since Rwanda and Uganda are Washington’s allies in the “war against terror” in Darfur and Somalia, respectively, the Obama administration has done little to stop Kigali and Kampala from destabilizing the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and looting its natural resources, either directly or through proxies. Rwanda and Uganda have even been included in an international oversight mechanism that is supposed to guide governance and security sector reforms in the DRC, but whose real objective is to facilitate Western access to the enormous natural wealth of the Congo and the Great Lakes region
Administration (probate law) · Corporate governance · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Good governance · International community · Looting · Natural resource · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Health and Conflict Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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