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Drawing lessons from recent events, the authors untangle our perceptions of Africa, offer a penetrating look at the moral and practical concerns that drive American foreign policy, and outline the steps needed to establish positive, not merely reactive, relations between the United States and the nations of Africa.
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This compact introduction to today's political and economic realities in Africa sets forth a foreign policy to fill the post-Cold War ideological void. From the stable rise of Ghana and Botswana to the violence and disintegration of Sudan and Nigeria, African nations present a wide range of opportunities and problems to which the United States has reacted with little consistency.
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