Title and Authors of the African History Book
"United States Foreign Policy Toward Africa" by Peter J. Schraeder.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 9780521444392, 376 pages.
Review
The book started with an explanation of the factors that effect foreign policy toward Africa. Then the book describes very well how policy toward Angola, DRC and South Africa evolved under different presidents. Many African issues were handled at the State Department level most of the time. Only under certain conditions were issues brought to a president. A country would only be in the spotlight a short time. Then policy would be back to the low specialist basis.
Lessons Learned
- Most presidents were not interested in Africa policy.
- Europe and the Soviet Union were constantly in the spotlight and had the best people involved.
- Almost all presidents knew very little on Africa.
- All Secretaries of State spent little time involved at all with African issues.
