Changing with the Tide: The Shifting Orientations of Foreign Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Title:	Changing with the Tide: The Shifting Orientations of Foreign Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author:	Akokpari, John K.
Year:	1999
Periodical:	Nordic Journal of African Studies
Volume:	8
Issue:	1
Pages:	22-39
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	foreign policy international relations Inter-African Relations Politics and Government
External link:	https://njas.fi/njas/article/view/641/463
Abstract:	Foreign policy orientations in sub-Saharan Africa are in flux. Changing exigencies and pressures have occasioned shifting orientations and preoccupations. The containment of conflicts has become one of the most central, if not the dominant, concern of foreign policy in sub-Saharan Africa. After first conceptualizing foreign policy and its objectives in sub-Saharan Africa, the author examines the shifting orientations in foreign policy since the 1960s and the developments which have shaped them, viz. decolonization and nonalignment, the debt crisis, structural adjustment and democratization, marginalization, and armed conflicts. Bibliogr.