{"id":5173,"date":"2024-03-28T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2024-03-28T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T10:23:40","slug":"what-could-president-elect-joe-bidens-african-strategy-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=5173","title":{"rendered":"What Could President-Elect Joe Biden\u2019s African Strategy Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author:<\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>Souha Majidi<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Affiliation:<\/b> Policy Center for the New South<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher: <\/b>Policy Center for the New South<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b> November 26, 2020<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Opinion\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Word Count:<\/b> 2724<\/span><\/p>

Link:<\/b> https:\/\/www.policycenter.ma\/opinion\/what-could-president-elect-joe-biden-s-african-strategy-be#.X9lXGV5RU6g<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Keywords: <\/b>US, Red Sea, Ethiopia, TPLF, the Horn of Africa<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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Brief:<\/b><\/p>

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This opinion article visualizes President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s strategy towards Africa. The US\u2019s economic and strategic decline in Africa during Trump\u2019s era marked a shift in Washington\u2019s foreign policy towards the continent. Instead of focusing on keeping influence on Africa, Trump\u2019s administration has honed-in on competing with great powers\u2014China and Russia. Due to this strategy, the US lost its influence over Africa with both symmetric threats (exemplified in competing powers to the US), and asymmetric threats (terrorist activism), which are the main challenges facing the new US president. In this respect, the author suggests that the US \u201cshould be able to regain quickly its influence on the continent.\u201d To do that in addition to the important matters that the new America president needs to deal with outside Africa, there are capacities that would allow Biden to resume Washington\u2019s influence over the continent. The dense diplomatic network in the continent and the huge military deployment over 37 sites in Africa would enable Biden to pave Africa for the US’s next strategy, and continue to deal with important matters elsewhere beyond Africa. However, there are time-sensitive issues Biden needs to start with. Urgent issues are restoring security in insecure hot-spots like the civil war in Ethiopia, South Sudan, and the Libyan crisis. Besides dealing with security issues, the US should also reposition itself in the Sahel region in order to maintain peace and security. The main risks that the US would face if it does not consider Africa in its strategy, are the voids being filled by Russia and China. Yet, despite calling the US to reconvene its ties with Africa, the author maintains doubt on the performance of the new US administration. After Trump\u2019s blackout policy that followed President Obama\u2019s \u201cefforts to aspire for a developed Africa,\u201d Biden still represents an opportunity to work with regional allies. In this context, a joint work should be conducted with the African Institutions (African Union and African states) and help the AU rethink its own governance challenges. The US also needs to increase federal spending on African aid development. The new administration also needs a radical shift on migration policies, by canceling the travel ban that Trump issued. Last but not least, Africa\u2019s continental free trade area is likely to get stronger with Biden\u2019s administration. Aside from being an informative piece, the rosy liberal idea surfaces in the language of the author. The optimistic liberal language in it does not match the objective language of strategy. Strategically speaking, the US\u2019s strategy to resume its influence over Africa, as the first stage to carry on its fight against China elsewhere, implies a realistic view not only of the US, but also of other states. In the case of Africa, the US\u2019s weak aids for development to Africa come at the expense of the African states. Whether with Biden or Trump, the US remains a state that always seeks its own interests, regardless of the suffering it causes. The author\u2019s call for Biden to resume the US\u2019s influence over Africa is questionable, as the US’s response to the author\u2019s call would be a liberal hope in a brutish world.<\/span><\/p>

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By: <\/b>Imad Atoui, CIGA Research Associate<\/span><\/p>



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