السياسة الأمريكية تجاه أفريقيا دراسة حالة منطقة البحيرات

Abstract

Abstract This research is studying the bases of America’s foreign policy in Africa during the “Cold War” period, in which the international reality at that time was subject to specific delimitations. Due to the dominant ideological conflict, which resulted in the importance of the propagation for containment policy and the imperialistic values to stop the danger of the spread out of the socialism tide, that threaten the U.S.A interests in the countries adopted the social ideas in their local ruling system in Africa. Some of the U.S.A policymaking institutions are focusing on the importance of the African continent in the international policy, when other U.S.A administrations considered the U.S.A relations in Africa would only lead to a new burden on the U.S.A government. The U.S.A. has used political and military means for the propagation and implementation of its foreign policies in Africa, which was greatly proofed, by the use of force by the U.S.A to protect the continent countries from the danger of International Socialism. The research, also, is studying analyzing the operation of U.S.A. re- planning of its foreign policy during the period that followed the collapse of the Soveit Union, and the emergence of the U.S.A as a super power with its adoption to the New World Order which concentrate on commercial policy as a penetrative and containment means to involve Africa in the World Economical Order to protect the U.S.A. interest in Africa, and to protect U.S.A’s national security from threats like AIDS and International Terrorism that come across Africa. » The U.S.A has also concentrated on the protection of democracy and Human Rights in Africa by supporting Afi'ica’s new leaders who were brought and greatly supported by U.S.A role in the continent. The research concentrate on the U.S.A policy in the Great Lakes area in Afiica which had faced civil wars that resulted in the death of thousands of the citizens in the mid of the nineteenth. According to some analysts these wars had erupted for ethnic reasons deeply rooted by colonization, beside the wrong practices of the national governments specially after the period of achieving independence, and the foreign interventions in the interior affairs of these countries, these interventions aimed at getting share ofthe rich natural resources in the continent and for the protection of the interest of the foreign forces. This conflict reflected on refugees, displacement, and the losses of resource in the neighbouring countries in the continent.