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Title: | Briefing: US Africa Command: next step or next stumble? |
Author: | McFate, Sean |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 107 |
Issue: | 426 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 111-120 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa United States |
Subjects: | peacekeeping forces foreign policy |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/27667001 |
Abstract: | Frustration has been a leitmotif in the post-Cold War security landscape, especially regarding multinational peacebuilding. The latest development in this landscape is the United States of America's newly established 'Africa Command' (Africom), a military command responsible for all US military activity in Africa. Although Africom represents a shift in US strategy towards peacebuilding, whether Africom is good for Africa remains to be seen. Recognizing that Africom is still at an embryonic stage, this briefing broadly examines its origins, the US interests informing its mission, the key peacebuilding lessons learned it aspires to institutionalize, and finally some early challenges that will confront this nascent command. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |