U.S. Foreign Policy In Sub-Saharan Africa: When Human Rights Norms Clash With National Interests

AUTEUR :  PAUL TANG ABOMO SJ

ABSTRACT

U.S. foreign policy in Sub-Sahara Africa reflects a tension between human rights goals and national interests. However, when national interests clash with normative goals, the choice has clearly been in favor of national interests. When the balance has tilted in favor of humanitarian intervention, the decisive factor has been media coverage. The ascension to the presidency of Barack Obama, the first African American president, did little to reverse these structural imperatives of power projection. Despite the rhetoric of different U.S. administrations on human rights, freedom and democratization in Africa ranks very low in their agenda priorities.
Paul Tang Abomo, Kanien 8/2 (2020) 73-103.
les droits de l’homme, la promotion de la démocratie en Afrique demeure sinon un leurre, du moins un objectif secondaire.