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Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa: Strategic Gain or Backlash?

机译:美国在非洲的外交政策的军事化:战略获胜还是反弹?

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Many think american foreign policy objectives reflect America's values and ideals. The United States globally promotes human rights, democracy, international justice, rule of law, and free trade. Achieving these liberal ends would require liberal policies. Ironically, U.S. foreign policymakers, informed by neorealist motivations, employ realist mechanisms, especially military force, to pursue its putative liberal goals, undermining the attainment of those liberal ends. U.S. policies toward Africa historically followed a "hands off approach until the onset of the Cold War. U.S. anti-communists stratagem led to its involvement in Cold War African security issues, evidenced in the Angolan war and the militarization of some client states and factions. In the post-Cold War era, America had limited political, humanitarian, security, and economic interests in Africa. Expectedly, its interest in African security issues dimmed with minimal military involvement in Africa. Eastern Europe and Asia gained primacy in America's foreign policy, demoting African security issues to the periphery of its foreign policy. In 1995, the Defense Department asserted that American security and economic interests in Africa were limited: "At present, we have no permanent or significant military presence anywhere in Africa: We have no bases; we station no combat forces; and we homeport no ships. . . .Ultimately we see very little traditional strategic interest in Africa."
机译:许多人认为美国外交政策目标反映了美国的价值观和理想。美国在全球范围内促进人权,民主,国际正义,法治和自由贸易。实现这些自由目的将需要自由政策。具有讽刺意味的是,在新现实主义动机的启发下,美国外交政策制定者采用了现实主义机制,特别是军事力量,以实现其公认的自由主义目标,从而破坏了实现这些自由主义目标的努力。从历史上看,美国对非洲的政策是在冷战开始之前采取“不让步的方式”。美国的反共战略使它参与了冷战时期的非洲安全问题,这在安哥拉战争以及某些客户国和派系的军事化中得到了证明。在冷战后时代,美国在非洲的政治,人道主义,安全和经济利益受到限制,人们对美国在非洲安全问题上的兴趣逐渐减弱,而对非洲的军事介入却很少。东欧和亚洲在美国的外交政策中占据上风,将非洲安全问题降到其外交政策的外围。1995年,国防部断言美国在非洲的安全和经济利益有限:“目前,我们在非洲任何地方都没有永久或重要的军事存在:我们没有基地;我们不派遣战斗部队;而且我们没有船到家。 。 。最终,我们对非洲的传统战略兴趣很少。”

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    《Military review》 |2014年第1期|50-59|共10页
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    Kofi Nsia-Pepra;

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    Essex University UK and Wayne State University;

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