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Title:Global Flows: Terror, Oil and Strategic Philanthropy
Author:Barnes, Sandra T.ISNI
Year:2005
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:32
Issue:104-105
Pages:235-252
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
United States
Subjects:foreign policy
military intervention
private aid
international relations
Politics and Government
Military, Defense and Arms
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240500329148
Abstract:US involvement in Africa is growing following threats of terrorism and interruptions in oil production and because of desires by foreign corporations to expand their activities on the continent. The response of American policymakers has been to establish a stronger military presence that will engage in counterterrorism initiatives and police oil installations. The goals and extent of this build-up, and the ideology legitimating it, are new. They are departures from Cold War policies. Similarly, the response of American business leaders to weaknesses in the infrastructure and political order of African States leads them to establish their own forms of community development, known as strategic philanthropy, in order to protect and expand local markets. Despite these major developments, the media are not informing the public. This article examines the implications of these military and business initiatives for African nations and the reasons for the lack of information about them. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. (Also published in: African Studies Review, vol. 48, no. 1 (2005), p. 1-22.) [Journal abstract]
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