New scramble for Africa? release_d74cyejxlzgyvbq5lm5wobq5z4

by Manjola Raich

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2010  

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This research effort had as its object of interest the agendas that the USA and EU have set up with regard to Africa since the dawn of the 21st century. The main focus was placed on two pivotal policies, USAFRICOM and JAES P&S, which stated to have put Africa into the high politics agenda of USA and EU, respectively. Since the reactions to these two policies diametrically differed, the research question concerned the reasons behind it by focusing on the decisions taken by the US and EU concerning Africa during the standing up of AFRICOM and JAES P&S, respectively. The evaluation and analysis was done by applying the analytical techniques offered by the Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) theory, a subfield within the International Relations (IR) theory. FPA was seen as instrumental because it offered 'a means [to bring together] foreign and domestic action under the same umbrella' as well as a useful structure for a comparative analysis. The analysis centred on the notion of a foreign policy system in action, composed of the actors involved, the context within which they act, the policy processes, issues and instruments available and finally the policy output. This last one is seen as being generated by the interrelationship between actors, contexts, processes, issues and instruments. Such system has been mirrored in the structure that this dissertation was built upon.
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