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U.S. Policy in Postcolonial Africa: Four Case Studies in Conflict Resolution.

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U.S. Policy in Postcolonial Africa: Four Case Studies in Conflict Resolution. F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. 280 pp.

This book is one of many books that have been directed at the American foreign policy in Third World Countries. It attempts to give its readers clear accounts of the U.S. foreign policy in Africa since the end of colonialization. The central objective of the United States foreign policy is to protect the United States' national interest. Ohaegbulam demonstrates that although the U.S. had no interest in the continent prior to the 1940's, the threat of the Soviet Union, and the influence that the Soviet Union could wield in the decolonizing African states, was pivotal in how the United States advanced its foreign policy on the continent. Therefore, the U.S. involvement is seen as a response to the Soviet Union's actions in the African continent.

Ohaegbulam maintains that although the U.S is not the...

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