Tag: Africa

• Capacity-Building Key to AFRICOM’s Mission

  February 6, 2013

  AFRICOM, Security Cooperation, U.S. Africa Strategy

  (Originally published in World Politics Review on February 5, 2013) Across the globe, partner capacity-building through steady-state theater security cooperation plays an increasingly important role in the forward defense posture of the United States. The Defense Department’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review identifies building the security capacity of partner states as a key mission, while the 2010 National Security Strategy argues that the Read.

• Brazil’s growing relations with Africa through the lens of its African heritage

  May 19, 2012

  Brazil’s Relations with Africa

  As I mentioned on my About Me page, I studied abroad in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil in college and researched the evolution of Afro-Brazilian identity and politics for my senior thesis. So, since issues related to Brazil’s African heritage and its growing relations with Africa have recently been in the news, I’ve decided to merge Read.