Cassandra Rachel Veney is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Political Science at Quinnipiac University.

• Introduction: Cassandra R. VeneyChapter One: Rethinking US-Africa Democracy Relations in Obama’s First TermRita Kiki EdozieChapter Two: Fighting Poverty and Improving Human Development in Africa: Opportunities for U.S. EngagementJohn Mukum MbakuChapter Three: US-Africa Relations and AFRICOM: Problems, Possibilities, and Limitations Edmond KellerChapter 4: Promoting or Resisting Change? The United States and the Arab Spring in North Africa with an Emphasis on EgyptAhmed Ali SalemChapter Five: US-Africa Relations With the Big Three: Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South AfricaCassandra R.VeneyChapter Six: US Policy in the Great Lakes RegionEmizet Francois KisanganiChapter Seven: Black Man’s Burden: African American Celebrities and Philanthropy Zine MugabaneChapter Eight: The African Diaspora’s Role in Forging US-Africa RelationsPaul Tiyambe Zeleza

[The] author’s incisive interpretative repertoire . . . gives the book a multilayered texture that is intriguing and puts it above standard narratives about the Liberian civil war and its dehumanizing violence. . . .While specialists of violence and its effects on society will find it easier to relate to the book’s subject matter for obvious reasons, non-specialists will also be pleasantly surprised by the ease with which they can follow Abramowitz’s complex thought process that seldom wavers in its attempt to reenact the chaotic nature of a dysfunctional Liberian society reemerging from its troubled war-torn recent past.

Cassandra Rachel Veney is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Political Science at Quinnipiac University.

• Introduction: Cassandra R. VeneyChapter One: Rethinking US-Africa Democracy Relations in Obama’s First TermRita Kiki EdozieChapter Two: Fighting Poverty and Improving Human Development in Africa: Opportunities for U.S. EngagementJohn Mukum MbakuChapter Three: US-Africa Relations and AFRICOM: Problems, Possibilities, and Limitations Edmond KellerChapter 4: Promoting or Resisting Change? The United States and the Arab Spring in North Africa with an Emphasis on EgyptAhmed Ali SalemChapter Five: US-Africa Relations With the Big Three: Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South AfricaCassandra R.VeneyChapter Six: US Policy in the Great Lakes RegionEmizet Francois KisanganiChapter Seven: Black Man’s Burden: African American Celebrities and Philanthropy Zine MugabaneChapter Eight: The African Diaspora’s Role in Forging US-Africa RelationsPaul Tiyambe Zeleza

[The] author’s incisive interpretative repertoire . . . gives the book a multilayered texture that is intriguing and puts it above standard narratives about the Liberian civil war and its dehumanizing violence. . . .While specialists of violence and its effects on society will find it easier to relate to the book’s subject matter for obvious reasons, non-specialists will also be pleasantly surprised by the ease with which they can follow Abramowitz’s complex thought process that seldom wavers in its attempt to reenact the chaotic nature of a dysfunctional Liberian society reemerging from its troubled war-torn recent past.

Cassandra Rachel Veney is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Political Science at Quinnipiac University.

• Introduction: Cassandra R. VeneyChapter One: Rethinking US-Africa Democracy Relations in Obama’s First TermRita Kiki EdozieChapter Two: Fighting Poverty and Improving Human Development in Africa: Opportunities for U.S. EngagementJohn Mukum MbakuChapter Three: US-Africa Relations and AFRICOM: Problems, Possibilities, and Limitations Edmond KellerChapter 4: Promoting or Resisting Change? The United States and the Arab Spring in North Africa with an Emphasis on EgyptAhmed Ali SalemChapter Five: US-Africa Relations With the Big Three: Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South AfricaCassandra R.VeneyChapter Six: US Policy in the Great Lakes RegionEmizet Francois KisanganiChapter Seven: Black Man’s Burden: African American Celebrities and Philanthropy Zine MugabaneChapter Eight: The African Diaspora’s Role in Forging US-Africa RelationsPaul Tiyambe Zeleza

[The] author’s incisive interpretative repertoire . . . gives the book a multilayered texture that is intriguing and puts it above standard narratives about the Liberian civil war and its dehumanizing violence. . . .While specialists of violence and its effects on society will find it easier to relate to the book’s subject matter for obvious reasons, non-specialists will also be pleasantly surprised by the ease with which they can follow Abramowitz’s complex thought process that seldom wavers in its attempt to reenact the chaotic nature of a dysfunctional Liberian society reemerging from its troubled war-torn recent past.