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Title:ASR Forum: The 2012 U.S. election and its implications for U.S.-Africa policy
Editor:Schmidt, ElizabethISNI
Year:2013
Periodical:African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462)
Volume:56
Issue:2
Pages:163-191
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
United States
Subjects:international relations
foreign policy
About person:Barack Husein Obama (1961-)ISNI
External link:https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2013.47
Abstract:In the wake of US President Obama's re-election in November 2012, the African Studies Association and the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars organized a joint plenary session to assess the evolution of US-Africa policies during Obama's first term and to anticipate future trajectories. Three panelists at that session contributed their remarks to this ASR Forum. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (p. 165-178) contrasts the euphoria that greeted Obama's first election with the disillusionment that emerged as it became clear that inconsistencies and hypocrisies in US-Africa policies would continue as long as those policies were rooted in imperial power and the paramountcy of US interests. Abdi Ismael Samatar (p. 179-183) notes that much of the euphoria that emerged from the 2008 presidential election was misplaced. He argues that Obama's inherited economic depression and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan severely limited his ability to enact progressive Africa policies. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (p. 185-191) criticizes the Obama administration's hypocrisy and double standards when dealing with Africa and its failure to support democratic forces on the continent. He focuses especially on the implications of the second Obama administration on the Great Lakes Region. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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