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U.S. Policy towards Africa: Balance and Prospective

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5:00 pm July 2016

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18
7:00 pm July 2016

OCP Policy Center is hosting Dr. J. Peter Pham, Director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Center in Washington D.C. on Monday July 18th, 2016 at 5pm in the OCP Policy Center office in Rabat. The theme of the convening is U.S. Policy towards Africa: Balance and Prospective.

In an election year, the world looks into how U.S. foreign policy would change or evolve with the new administration. Continuity or disruption is what analysts will try to understand from the campaign speeches and other signals sent by the candidates of the two major parties. With this in mind, the speaker will shed some light on the aforementioned policy with a particular geographical focus on Africa. This will also be the occasion for the attendance to discuss the different facets of the U.S. policy towards Africa from a security, energy or development perspectives.

Agenda

 

17:00 – 17:15

Opening Remarks

17:15 – 18:00

U.S. Policy towards Africa: Balance and Prospective

Peter J. Pham, Atlantic Council

18:00 – 18:30

Discussants

- Mohammed Loulichki, Former Morocco's Permanent Representative to the UN
- Abdelhak Bassou, OCP Policy Center 

18:30 – 19:00

Debate

 

Speakers
J. Peter Pham
Director, Africa Center, Atlantic Council of the United States
J. Peter Pham is the director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center. He is also the incumbent vice president of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), and is editor-in-chief of ASMEA's Journal of the Middle East and Africa. Pham was previously senior vice president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and editor of its bimonthly journal, American Foreign Policy Interests. He was also a tenured associate professor of justice studies, political science, and Africana studies at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he was director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Pham is the author of more than 300 essays, and reviews, and the author, editor, or translator of over a dozen books, most ...