Publishing Institution: Atlantic Council / Political Geography: Africa / Topic: International Trade and Finance

Author:: J. Peter Pham
Publication Date:: 12-2016
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Atlantic Council
Abstract:: Turmoil in traditional geopolitical hotspots—Europe, Russia, the Levant, and Asia—has distracted the United States from the numerous opportunities and challenges across the Atlantic in Africa. Over the last decade, Africa has celebrated economic growth and new levels of political and economic engagement with the United States. But the continent faces many challenges to its continued economic development, security, and governance. In this latest Atlantic Council Strategy Paper, Atlantic Council Vice President and Africa Center Director Dr. J. Peter Pham persuasively argues that the United States needs to modernize its relations with a changing Africa to best engage a new range of actors and circumstances.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, International Trade and Finance, and Geopolitics
Political Geography:: Africa and America

Author:: J. Peter Pham and Ricardo Rene Laremont
Publication Date:: 08-2014
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Atlantic Council
Abstract:: Africa is home to seven of the world's ten fastest-growing economies. By 2050, the continent's population is expected to overtake India's and China's, doubling to two billion people. Moreover, those two billion Africans will be younger than their counterparts in every other region of the world and will account for one in four workers globally by mid-century. Africa's rich endowment of natural resources, including about 30 percent of the world's known reserves of minerals and 60 percent of the planet's uncultivated arable land, is already well-known to investors.
Topic:: Security, Economics, International Trade and Finance, and Foreign Direct Investment
Political Geography:: Africa, China, and Morocco

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