AAS 2400 - USA - Africa Relations

Credits: 3

Description: Students explore United States foreign policies in Africa since the post-1945 period to the present. U.S. relations with Africa traditionally have been low on the list of overall U.S. foreign policy interests. For many, Africa was an unlikely place for the United States to begin to define its international role in a post-Cold War world. But as a continent where East-West tensions were often played out in the 1960s-1980s, there is a certain logic that it was also the continent where the U.S. foreign policy-making machinery was tested in the early days of a new world order. In this course students survey and analyze American foreign policies on the importance of Africa’s resources, strategic position and challenges of development. It relates U.S. interests to the domestic political processes that shape its policies in Africa. This course thus addresses the questions of U.S. interests in Africa, past, present, and future, and Washington’s policy toward the African continent.

Cross Listed Course(s): PSC 2400