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Promoting US Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137365446

ISBN: 978-1-349-47375-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 23, 2015

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Introduction

Hendrickson, Roshen

Pages: 1 –10

[For decades the Western media has portrayed Africa primarily through the lenses of poverty and insecurity but now the region is suddenly being portrayed as the new land of opportunity. This really began with China taking a strong interest in the region as it sought markets and resources to fuel...
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Understanding Promotion of Investment in Africa

Hendrickson, Roshen

Pages: 11 –25

[How has the United States government promoted private investment in Sub-Saharan Africa? When were key institutions and policies created and why? The purpose of this chapter is to provide an analytically eclectic framework for understanding foreign economic policy toward Africa that incorporates...
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The Cold War and the Creation of Institutions Promoting Private Investment

Hendrickson, Roshen

Pages: 26 –53

[In this chapter I document the origin of efforts to promote investment in Africa through the creation of a set of new institutions. Along with initiatives to provide aid and further trade, these new institutional mechanisms to assist private investors developed out of particular historic...
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Global Economic Competition in the Post-Cold War Era

Hendrickson, Roshen

Pages: 54 –84

[In the period immediately following the end of the Cold War, during the Herbert Walker Bush administration, reduced resource flows to Africa signaled a disengagement from African affairs (Cason 1997). During the William Jefferson Clinton administration, however, both the president and Congress...
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George W. Bush and Africa in the New Millennium

Hendrickson, Roshen

Pages: 85 –114

[President George W. Bush came into office with little interest in Africa but this changed after the Al Qaeda attack on US soil on September 11, 2001. There were three key trends during the Bush years: neoliberal consolidation, a massive increase in development assistance mostly targeting the...
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The Obama Administration in a Multipolar World

Hendrickson, Roshen

Pages: 115 –150

[President Barack Hussein Obama took office in the midst of a global financial crisis and by 2010 faced a domestic political context that provided unprecedented challenges for passing new policies. There were great expectations for this president because of his paternal links to the African...
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Africa and Transformation in the Global Economy

Hendrickson, Roshen

Pages: 151 –160

[Since their earliest forays into the African continent, in pursuit of economic opportunities, Americans have argued that they should have the same ‘rights’ of access that other foreign actors have, and that their economic engagement is inherently progressive. From the earliest involvement,...

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