Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Joel Barkan, a CSIS senior associate, was quoted by the Washington Post, "U.S. Policy in Africa Faulted on Priorities."
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Joel Barkan, a CSIS senior associate, was quoted by the Washington Post, "U.S. Policy in Africa Faulted on Priorities."
In his tour of Africa, President Bush steered clear of countries where stability, human rights and progress toward democracy have degenerated during his tenure, among them Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Uganda and Kenya.
"While democratization has clearly been one of the three major stated objectives of the Bush administration -- the others being security and development -- democratization probably ranks third," said Joel Barkan, a senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "You can see it in several ways, but it's mainly the subordination of democratization to the so-called war on terror."
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