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Gorbachev’s ‘New Thinking’ and the Options for President Bush on Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2021

Donald Rothchild
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Upon taking office, a new administration has a unique opportunity to set its own goals and priorities. President Bush, although somewhat constrained by his links to the Reagan past as well as by his cold war (i.e., “globalist”) perceptions of the external world and by his self-imposed austerity measures, nonetheless retains a sometimes unrecognized room for maneuver. Taking into account the limitations in public economic resources that he faces, what policy options are open to his administration in its dealing with contemporary Africa?

Type
Focus: Issues in U.S. Policy Toward Africa, A New Administration in an Age of Transition
Information
African Issues , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , Winter 1989 , pp. 10 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1989 

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1. For a fuller discussion, see Rothchild, Donald and Ravenhill, John, “Subordinating African Issues to Global Logic: Reagan Confronts Political Complexity,” in Oye, Kenneth A., Lieber, Robert J., and Rothchild, Donald (eds.), Eagle Resurgent? The Reagan Era in American Foreign Policy, Boston, Little, Brown, 1987, pp. 393–429 Google Scholar.

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12. U.S. Department of State, Southwestern Africa: Regional Brief, Washington D.C., Bureau of Public Affairs, Dec. 1988, p. 3.