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Article: African Foreign Policies.(Review) (book reviews)
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- Perspectives on Political Science
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- September 22, 1999
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Wright, Stephen, ed. African Foreign Policies Boulder, CO: Westview 260 pp., $65.00 cloth, $26.00 paper ISBN 0-8133-2406-8 cloth ISBN 0-8133-2407-6 paper Publication Date: November 1998
Effective foreign policy is predicated on a strong economic base. But Africa is weak in economics, more so lately because of the marginality in global politics that the continent has endured in the aftermath of the Cold War. Is all hope then lost for the conduct of effective foreign policy in the continent? The sixteen contributors to this important and timely anthology of thirteen essays, ten of them country case studies, think not. African Foreign Policies acknowledges the ...