James Hentz is a Professor and Chair, Department of International Studies and Political Science, Virginia Military Institute, USA.
He is the editor-in-chief of the Taylor & Francis/Routledge quarterly journal “African Security”.
In the paper “National and Human Security in Sub-Sahara Africa”, J. Hentz notes:
“U.S. engagement in Africa, such as it is, is driven by classical national security issues: access to strategic resources (oil), the global war against terrorism, and great power competition (China).
The better approach to Africa is to understand how its security issues transcend the false dichotomy between humanitarian and national security concerns”
He is of the view that humanitarian exploit offers greater cause and urgency compared to realpolitik.
Does this mean that the United States is yet to show compassion adequate enough to help states in Africa?
He notes that human security is rarely the catalyst for intervention in Africa, atleast since Mogadishu in 1994.
Does this apply to the Libyan crises and the killing of Ghaddafi?
James J. Hentz is the co-editor of New and Critical Security and Regionalism: Beyond the Nation State (2003).
From 1993-1994 he was a visiting scholar at Rand Afrikaans University (Johannesburg).
In 2003, he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Miklós Zrínyi National Defense University, Hungary; and in the summer of 2007, he was awarded the Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute.
Dr. Hentz won the 2007 Outstanding Faculty Award for the state of Virginia, from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. In 2014, he won the Virginia Social Science Association (VSSA) award for scholarship in International Studies and Political Science.
He is currently revising his manuscript, “Wars Across States in Africa”, for publication.
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“U.S. engagement in Africa, such as it is, is driven by classical national security issues: access to strategic resources (oil), the global war against terrorism, and great power competition (China).
The better approach to Africa is to understand how its security issues transcend the false dichotomy between humanitarian and national security concerns”
He is of the view that humanitarian exploit offers greater cause and urgency compared to realpolitik.
Does this mean that the United States is yet to show compassion adequate enough to help states in Africa?
He notes that human security is rarely the catalyst for intervention in Africa, atleast since Mogadishu in 1994.
Does this apply to the Libyan crises and the killing of Ghaddafi?
James J. Hentz is the co-editor of New and Critical Security and Regionalism: Beyond the Nation State (2003).
From 1993-1994 he was a visiting scholar at Rand Afrikaans University (Johannesburg).
In 2003, he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Miklós Zrínyi National Defense University, Hungary; and in the summer of 2007, he was awarded the Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute.
Dr. Hentz won the 2007 Outstanding Faculty Award for the state of Virginia, from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. In 2014, he won the Virginia Social Science Association (VSSA) award for scholarship in International Studies and Political Science.
He is currently revising his manuscript, “Wars Across States in Africa”, for publication.
State Affairs!
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