Towards Understanding: Post Colonialism, Strategic Culture, and sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

U.S. foreign policy toward sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the end of the Cold War has been largely ineffective at addressing endemic instability. The growing strategic importance of sub-Saharan Africa demands a new approach to policy formulation that seeks to understand instability as a product of domestic decision making, while simultaneously limiting the influences of Western bias. The study of strategic culture within SSA can effectively inform U.S. policy making, but only if applied within a post-colonial framework. Such a framework limits the effect of Western bias in the study of foreign culture, and is also the most appropriate theoretical approach to use based on SSA's common colonial history.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 20, 2015
Accession Number
AD1175983

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  • Michael J. Oginsky

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Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

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  • Air Force
  • Cold War
  • Failed States
  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Imperialism
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • International Security
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Political Theory
  • Second World War
  • Sociopolitics
  • United States
  • United States Africa Command
  • War
  • War Colleges

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