Shai Divon, Bill Derman

United States Assistance Policy in Africa (eBook, PDF)

Exceptional Power

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the American aid and assistance discourse, its formation and justification in relation to historical contexts, and its operation on the African continent. The book highlights how cultural, political and economic conceptions and concerns about national security influence the American assistance discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317237242
• Artikelnr.: 48799532

Autorenporträt

Shai A. Divon is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty of Landscape and Society at the Norwegian University of the Life Sciences, Norway. He has extensive military and security experience and has worked and carried out research in Africa, Asia, the United States and the Middle East.

Bill Derman is Professor Emeritus at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty of Landscape and Society at the Norwegian University of the Life Sciences, Norway and also at the Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction - Power rules
Chapter 2. Words of power - Power of words
Chapter 3. Tools of power: the American discourse
Chapter 4. US policy in Africa and the Cold War
Chapter 5. US policy in Africa and the 'new world order'
Chapter 6. The arc of instability: US policy in Africa after September 11
Chapter 7. Explaining assistance as power projection