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• W1521461569 abstract "Introduction The African continent has shifted from the periphery towards the center of international concern. Africa has entered radar screen of the United States as strategic military and economic interest. Despite the fact that security and humanitarian aid are often presented as the driving forces behind America's push into Africa, the growing interest in Africa is shaped not only by global strategic concerns but also and most importantly the growing demand for oil coupled with the quest for access to foreign markets. This new engagement with Africa is informed by global competition between the US and China and the post-Cold War challenges that are remapping the global environment. America is creating new institutions to implement its wide range of strategic goals in Africa; the most controversial is the Unified Combatant Command for Africa (Africom). Is Africom signaling the official beginning of post-Cold War American imperialism and hegemony in Africa? This study is derived from the African peoples' desire to understand and express their discontent with the ongoing militarization of their continent. We seek to understand Africom above and beyond the official rhetoric as well as address the hidden agenda of the US's new foreign policy toward Africa. The hypothesis is that the appropriate and efficient approach to checkmate the implementation of Africom on the continent should go beyond foreign policy options. Our purpose is not to underplay the threat of terrorism or other security concerns that exist in Africa. However, this study posits that America's new and altruistic engagement with Africa is in fact strategy to exert control over the continent to serve its own foreign policy agenda. The first section of this article explains Africom as new institutional body in the foreign policy arena. Although Africom is nascent institution, its function will be continuation of American militarization. The second part illuminates the devastating impact of American militarization of Africa with particular attention to how it changes local cultures of violence. The third section sheds light on strategies Africa can employ to counter Africom and broader militarization of the continent. Mapping Out Africom: A Small Portrait A brief background of the US military is necessary to better understand why and how Africom came into being. The military cartography of Africa prior to Africom was informed by Washington's Cold War lens of geopolitics. U.S. defense operations for Africa were overseen by three different commands: the European Command (EUCOM) based in Stuttgart, Germany, which covered West, Central, and Southern Africa; Central Command (CENTCOM) located in Tampa, Florida-USA whose main field of coverage is the Middle East but also the Horn of Africa; and the Pacific Command (PACOM) located in Honolulu, Hawaii-USA which covered the islands of the western coast of Africa. (1) The birth place of humanity was low priority for America during the Cold War despite the numerous proxy wars it tacitly or directly supported. The Cold War ended in 1989 and the logic and rationales governing it became obsolete. Africa had progressively entered the radar screen of the US as a continent emerging in importance, 22 percent of the earth's surface,... approaching 800 million inhabitants, growing in political clout ... rich in human capital and natural resources. (2) America's policy planners wanted to reconstruct African military cartography to align with America's post-Cold War geopolitical interests. Africa was now seen as unique region and new command was to represent a realignment of our organizational construct on how we deal with Africa. And so instead of having three commanders that deal with Africa as third or fourth priority, we will have single commander that deals with it, day in day out, as his first and only priority. (3) Africom was officially announced by former President George W. …" @default.
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• W1521461569 title "Dealing with Africom: The Political Economy of Anger and Protest" @default.
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