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Article: African Foreign Policies.(Review)
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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African Foreign Policies. Edited by Stephen Wright. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999. 260p. $27.00 paper.
The study of African foreign policies presents a set of analytical dilemmas. The three decades of African decolonization have not produced significant changes in the content and substance of foreign policy, and the policymaking environment has not altered fundamentally over the years. There is equally a remarkable continuity in the structure of external constraints on African states individually and as collective units. The issues that have always animated debate about the ability of African states to manage their external realms, such as nation-building, economic ...