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| Staff: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program |
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| Chairs: | Vincent A. Mai, AEA Investors LLC Frank G. Wisner, External Affairs, AIG Inc. |
June 2005 - Present
Publications
May 2007
This report argues that Angola deserves priority attention in the formulation of U.S. foreign, national security, and economic policies, particularly in the design of policy toward Africa.
Meetings
Angola Commission Meeting
Related Project: Preventive Action Commission: Toward an Angola Strategy - Prioritizing U.S.-Angola Relations
| Presiders: | Vincent A. Mai, Chairman, AEA Investors Inc. |
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| Frank G. Wisner, Vice President, External Relations, American International Group, Inc. |
Commission Fact-Finding Trip to Angola
Related Project: Preventive Action Commission: Toward an Angola Strategy - Prioritizing U.S.-Angola Relations
Angola Commission Meeting
Related Project: Preventive Action Commission: Toward an Angola Strategy - Prioritizing U.S.-Angola Relations
| Presiders: | Vincent A. Mai, Chairman, AEA Investors Inc. |
|---|---|
| Frank G. Wisner, Vice Chairman, External Affairs, American International Group, Inc. |
Angola Commission Meeting
Related Project: Preventive Action Commission: Toward an Angola Strategy - Prioritizing U.S.-Angola Relations
| Presiders: | Vincent A. Mai, Chairman, AEA Investors Inc. |
|---|---|
| Frank G. Wisner, Vice President, External Affairs, American International Group, Inc. |
Angola Commission Meeting
Related Project: Preventive Action Commission: Toward an Angola Strategy - Prioritizing U.S.-Angola Relations
| Presiders: | Vincent A. Mai, Chairman, AEA Investors Inc. |
|---|---|
| Frank G. Wisner, Vice Chairman, External Affairs, American International Group, Inc. | |
| Speakers: | Gerald J. Bender, Director, School of International Relations, University of Southern California |
| Mario Constantino, Minister-Counselor, Permanent Mission of Angola to the United Nations | |
| Cindy L. Courville, Special Assistant to the President, Senior Director for African Affairs, National Security Council | |
| Eric Loken, Director of Southern African Affairs, United States Agency for International Development | |
| Adao Pinto, Minister-Counselor, Embassy of the Republic of Angola |
Further Readings
Updated: January 26, 2007
| Author: | Esther Pan |
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Rising global energy demands have caused China to turn to Africa as a major supplier of oil. This backgrounder looks at how Beijing shapes its African foreign policy around its energy needs.
November 16, 2006
Statement
January 2006
Task Force Report No. 56
This Council-sponsored Independent Task Force finds that Africa is of growing strategic importance to the United States in addition to being an important humanitarian concern. In a world where economic opportunity, security threats, disease, and even support for democracy transcend borders, a policy based on humanitarian concerns alone serves neither U.S. interests, nor Africa’s. Furthermore, the Task Force finds that critical humanitarian interests would be better served by a more comprehensive U.S. approach toward Africa; nor is it valid to treat Africa more as an object of charity than a diverse continent with partners the United States can work with to advance shared objectives.
July 21, 2005
| Author: | Princeton N. Lyman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies |
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February 16, 2007
| Author: | Stephanie Hanson, Copy Editor |
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The process of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of former combatants features in most of Africa’s post-conflict reconstruction programs. Though DDR programs have improved, problems with reintegration persist.
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