US POLICY AND DEMOCRATISATION IN AFRICA: THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL UNIVERSALISM. |
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Moss, Todd J.
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1/1/95
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Journal
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Journal of Modern African Studies Great Britain
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33(2)
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Social/Public Policy and Administration
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Despite sentiment for promoting democracy, freedom, and other aspects of Lockean liberalism and American values in sub-Saharan Africa after independence,most American foreign assistance to this region between the 1960 s and 1980 s went to the governments of states, including Ethiopia, the Sudan, and Zaire, that did little or nothing to promote these ideals.America s African policy was made in Washington by federal government bureaucracies and not by professional Africanists. Following the end of the Cold War,the United States in the 1990 s has lacked clear national interests in sub-Saharan Africa, and the African continent has fallen to the bottom of American foreign policy concerns.
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