Africa
May 2004

May Article Abstracts

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Title: The New South Africa, a Decade Later
Author: Antoinette Handley
"What has changed has been unexpected: the politics of the country have stabilized with astonishing speed...; [the ANC government] has implemented a conservative macroeconomic policy; and an epidemic has emerged as the single greatest threat to stability and prosperity."
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Title: Ten Years After, Rwanda Tries Reconciliation
Author: Lyn S. Graybill
"Rwanda's resurrection of a traditional method of resolving conflict may serve as an example to other traumatized societies in Africa that are wrestling with the question of how to live with former enemies."
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Title: Killing For Christ? The Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda
Author: Kevin C. Dunn
"The LRA's war in Uganda, like many conflicts in Africa, may appear illogical to the outsider (and especially to the Western media), but it contains an internal logic that makes it rational to the participants."
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Title: Africa's Young Guerrillas: Rebels with a Cause?
Author: Morten Boas
"A shared experience of brutalization, abuse, and marginalization informs the worldview of these movements. Each has emerged, too, within the context of a deeply dysfunctional state."
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Title: Nigeria's Democratic Generals
Author: Robert B. Lloyd
"If democracy firmly establishes itself in this African giant and economic reform leads to increasing wealth and stability, Nigeria could serve as a beacon of inspiration for a continent many view as hopeless."
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Title: Libya: Who Blinked, and Why
Author: George Joffe
"There was plenty of self-satisfied official comment about the efficacy of strong-minded policy in the Middle East, particularly the war in Iraq, in concentrating Colonel Qaddafi's mind on essential reform. But it was nothing of the kind that led to the breakthrough."
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Title: Africa's Oil and American National Security
Author: Michael T. Klare and Daniel Volman
"As long as Washington views imported petroleum as a national security matter, Africa will loom ever larger in the Pentagon's strategic calculations. This is so not only because America's reliance on Africa's oil is growing, but also because the very production of oil in Africa is likely to generate instability and conflict."
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Title: "Compassionate Conservatism" Comes to Africa
Author: Salih Booker and Ann-Louise Colgan
"While the hiv/aids crisis is the most urgent threat facing Africa and the world, the Bush administration's current orientation is to delay action. In contrast, Washington's interest in African oil and the specter of terrorist cells quietly shapes the immediate course of us Africa policy."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in March, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Africa
A map of Africa.
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