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U.S.-Sudan Foreing Policy Relations

This paper is a study of foreign policy relations between the United States and Sudan. With the end of the Cold War, the United States has struggled to redefine its international responsibilities, and this has been particularly problematic in Africa. Sudan, the largest country on the continent, offers an excellent example of many issues facing the United States in this part of the world. Sudan's leaders have changed international allegiances, encouraged civil war, battled and exacerbated large-scale famine, and manipulated their financial base as they have struggled for power within the region. The problem for the United States is to find a balance in dealing with governmental regimes that are under siege, while trying to help ease long-term crises of civil war and famine that such regimes often help create. The United States must satisfy its own national interests while defining its role in its relations with Africa, the nearby Middle East, and the world as a whole.

Sudan emerged from colonial dominance as Africa's largest nation. Embracing the lower Nile and large stretches of desert and bordering nine other African nations and the Red Sea, Sudan has strategic importance but neither historical nor ethnic claims to consideration as a single, united African state. Clement Henry Moore writes, "Sudan's geographic expanse and demographic heterogeneity make it one of the least governable countries in Africa." Mark Duffield observes:

Outsiders could be forgiven for having difficulty in understanding how governance has survived over the past decade. Since the early 1980s, successive famines have impoverished the north; civil war and famine have devastated the south; violence and instability have become widespread; prices for its staple exports have fallen; official debt has burgeoned; and, in recent years, there has been a growing antipathy on the part of northern donors.

Sudan's population of approximately 30 milli...

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