Scramble for Africa

Recently, two authors have published an interesting, thoughtful book titled The Scramble for Africa: Darfur—Intervention and the USA. The two authors of this book, Steven Fake and Kevin Funk, deeply analyze issues of particular significance, not only to the US

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The most recent effort to grapple with the far-reaching international response to the Darfur conflict comes from Steven Fake and Kevin Funk in “The Scramble for Africa, Darfur-Intervention and the USA.” The book offers a leftist critique of humanitarianism in

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Two things are immediately noticeable about Kevin Funk’s and Steven Fake’s Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA. The first is the long list of excerpts from positive pre-publication reviews at the front of the book. (Among the 16 reviews

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Claims that the war in Darfur is intimately linked to vast untapped oil reserves have been made ever since the conflict began and are revived in The Scramble for Africa, where Steven Fake and Kevin Funk repeat a series of

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It seems the White House and the Obama administration has made the African continent the focus of their P.R. campaign this summer. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon begin her seven-country tour of Africa. This comes on the heels

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This blog has become a hotbed for ardent discussions about the inefficacy of the Save Darfur Coalition and the theories for American influence in Sudan. While much of the criticism is astute and deserved, it seems as though the SDC

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Over the next few months, Making Sense of Darfur will be running an occasional series of reviews of the book The Scramble for Africa: Darfur, Intervention and the USA by Steven Fake and Kevin Funk. It has a different take

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