This book addresses one main question: whether the United States has a cohesive foreign policy for Africa.

This book traces the development and impact of regional economic communities (RECs) in Africa and addresses a timely question: do REC members, and the REC itself, positively influence member states’ behaviors towards other members and more broadly, regionally and continentally due to REC membership? ‘Changing member states’ behaviors’ is measured across three ‘interconnected, fundamental dimensions of societal-systems’ proposed by Marshall and Elzinga Marshall in CSP’sGlobal Repot 2017. These are i) the persistence of conflict or its counterpoint, achieving peace, ii) fostering...