Campus Units
Community and Regional Planning
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
Fall 2019
Journal or Book Title
Africa Today
Volume
66
Issue
1
First Page
2
Last Page
27
DOI
10.2979/africatoday.66.1.01
Abstract
Globalization is one of the most important socioeconomic processes of recent decades, but it has elicited a reactionary backlash in some countries, leading to calls for reform. President Trump's rise to power in the United States and his determination to rewrite his country's involvement in globalization have brought substantial changes to foreign policy, including the US–Africa relationship. His administration's policies appear undeveloped, but we can determine distinct trends and tendencies. This article examines the effects of these policies on Africa to argue that they go beyond a return to the benign neglect shown by many US presidents before the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, to include a malign governmental gaze, exemplifying a retreat from US global hegemony through selective delinking in aid, and manifesting economic and security interests in Africa in particularly detrimental ways.
Copyright Owner
Indiana University Press
Copyright Date
2019
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Owusu, Francis; Reboredo, Ricardo; and Carmody, Padraig, "Trumping Development: Selective Delinking and Coercive Governmentality in US–Africa Relations" (2019). Community and Regional Planning Publications. 40.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/communityplanning_pubs/40
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Comments
This article is published as Francis Owusu, Ricardo Reboredo and Pádraig Carmody, Trumping Development: Selective Delinking and Coercive Governmentality in US–Africa Relations., Africa Today Fall 2019, 66(1)2-27. DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.66.1.01. Posted with permission.