السياسة الامريكية تجاه افريقيا بعد عام 2001: الفرص والتحديات

Section: Articles
Published
Dec 1, 2025
Pages
223-242

Abstract

This research discusses the United States' efforts to reformulate its policy towards the African continent in light of the security and economic transformations that occurred at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as it witnessed on the continent an important arena for securing resources and combating terrorism. However, these policies, despite their fluctuations and diversity, faced many accumulated challenges based on the historical legacy of American relations with African countries based on political conditionality and selectivity in the subject of development partnerships with the increase in competing powers such as Russia, China and even France, which present itself to African countries as a more flexible, less intrusive and conditional alternative.

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