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Government Officials, Academics, and the Process of Formulating U.S. National Security Policy Toward Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Larry W. Bowman
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Relationships between U.S. government officials and academic specialists working on national security and foreign policy issues with respect to Africa are many and complex. They can be as informal as a phone call or passing conversation or as formalized as a consulting arrangement or research contract. Many contacts exist and there is no doubt that many in both government and the academy value these ties. There have been, however, ongoing controversies about what settings and what topics are appropriate to the government/academic interchange. National security and foreign policy-making in the U.S. is an extremely diffuse process.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , Winter 1990 , pp. 5 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1990 

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Larry W. Bowman is Professor of Political Science and Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. He wishes to thank the more than thirty past and present government officials, academics, and others involved in the national security and foreign policy process for consenting to the in-depth interviews that made this article possible. All interviews were done under conditions of confidentially, and it is for that reason that the names of academics involved in the policy process have been withheld.