Kenya
After Moi by Joel D. Barkan Foreign
Affairs(Jan/Feb 2004) Kenya's fragile government is threatened by
factionalism, economic challenges, and rising crime.
To ensure Nairobi's involvement in the war on terrorism,
Washington must be sensitive to its domestic needs,
recognizing that fledgling democracies can be more
difficult to engage than their authoritarian predecessors.
The
Terrorist Threat in AfricaPrinceton
N. Lyman and J. Stephen Morrison Foreign Affairs
(Jan/Feb 2004) The Bush administration has focused on destroying
al Qaeda in East Africa, but it has been slow to
address less-visible terrorist threats elsewhere
on the continent, such as Islamist extremism in
Nigeria and criminal syndicates in West Africa's
failed states. This indifference could be costly
-- for Africans and Americans both.
Sudan's
Perfect WarRandolph Martin (Foreign
Affairs, March/April 2002) After years as a pariah, Khartoum has now deftly
managed to end its political isolation. The success
of its new alliances and the completion of an oil
pipeline, however, mean that northern Sudan could
indefinitely continue its bloody civil war against
the south. Only the United States has the power
and prestige to help end the violence and push for
a peace that would be in everyone's interests.
Hot
Documents
Breaking
the Cycle: Ensuring Equitable Access to HIV Treatment
for Women and Girls, by Janet Fleischman
and J. Stephen Morrison, Center for Strategic and
International Studies (February 2004)
Recent international initiatives to provide antiretroviral
(ARV) treatment in resource-poor countries have
changed the landscape of the HIV/AIDS debate and
signal an unprecedented new phase in the struggle
against HIV/AIDS...
To
Guarantee the Peace: An Action Strategy for a Post-Conflict
Sudan, by Dina Esposito and Bathsheba
Crocker, Center for Strategic and International
Studies (January 2004)
Ongoing peace negotiations offer the best opportunity
in decades to end Sudan's civil war the longest-running
such conflict in Africa. A negotiated settlement
between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's
Liberation Movement/Army would be an historic achievement...
U.S.
Policy Toward Liberia, by Walter
H. Kansteiner, Testimony to House Committee on International
Relations Subcommittee on Africa (October 2, 2003)
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
lays out the Bush administration’s progress
on its three overarching priorities in Liberia.
African
Foreign Affairs Dialogue with the U.S.: Education
for Democracy, by Gwendolyn Mikell,
Chimera (Summer 2003)
The author speaks to the importance of the United
States engaging African countries in foreign policy
dialogues in order to most effectively confront
our common futures. It gives examples of active
African foreign affairs institutes and recommends
the formation of collaborative relationships.
The
Market for Civil War, by Paul Collier,
Foreign Policy (May/June 2003)
The author examines the complex phenomenon of civil
wars and the economic forces that sustain them.
