Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms
- Maps
- 1 An introduction to US foreign policy toward Africa
- 2 Pattern and process in US foreign policy toward Africa
- 3 US foreign policy toward Zaire
- 4 US Foreign policy toward Ethiopia and Somalia
- 5 US foreign policy toward South Africa
- 6 US Africa policies in the post-Cold War era
- Appendix A Note on method
- Appendix B Note on interview techniques
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
4 - US Foreign policy toward Ethiopia and Somalia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms
- Maps
- 1 An introduction to US foreign policy toward Africa
- 2 Pattern and process in US foreign policy toward Africa
- 3 US foreign policy toward Zaire
- 4 US Foreign policy toward Ethiopia and Somalia
- 5 US foreign policy toward South Africa
- 6 US Africa policies in the post-Cold War era
- Appendix A Note on method
- Appendix B Note on interview techniques
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Summary
Our objective should be to exclude military bases or related facilities for foreign powers from the Horn of Africa. The military forces of both Somalia and Ethiopia are all out of proportion to their true national security requirements and should be scaled down.
Raymond L. Thurston, US Ambassador to Somalia (1965–68).The Horn of Africa … has considerable strategic importance for the United States as it is relevant to both the security of the Middle East and to Africa …. We seek access to airfields and harbors for our military forces should they, in times of crisis, be required to defend against Soviet expansionism in the Persian Gulf or the Indian Ocean.
Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1981–89), November 13, 1985.Either be a mountain, or have a mountain to lean on.
Somali proverbIntroduction
The Horn of Africa is the site of a centuries-old competition between a multi-ethnic Ethiopian state and Somali nationalists who historically have sought to unify their traditionally divided peoples within one political system. As early as the sixteenth century, this competition erupted in conflict as the Christian-ruled Ethiopian empire of Emperor Lebna Dengel was beset militarily by Muslim sultanates led by Ahmed Gurey, a famed Islamic conquerer in Somali folklore and political history.
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- United States Foreign Policy toward AfricaIncrementalism, Crisis and Change, pp. 114 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994