U.S. Foreign Policy in the Horn of Africa, 1945-1990

A historical analysis of U.S. foreign policy toward the Horn of Africa between 1945 and 1990, authored by Peter J. Schraeder. The text examines how Cold War rationales shaped U.S. relationships with regional regimes like Ethiopia under Haile Selassie and Somalia under Siad Barre, focusing on strategic interests and aid allocations. The dataset is sourced from the paperswithcode platform.

Use Cases

• Analyzing shifts in U.S. strategic alliances based on the described East-West framework
• Studying the correlation between perceived Soviet threat and U.S. military/economic aid levels mentioned in the description
• Examining the manipulation of U.S. anticommunist policy by regional leaders for aid, as described

Strengths

• Analysis covers a defined 45-year period from 1945 to 1990
• Provides specific aid figures, such as over $600 million for the Selassie regime and nearly $800 million for the Siad regime
• Authored by a named scholar, Peter J. Schraeder

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified
• Data may reflect the thematic and source bias inherent to paperswithcode

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode

Collection Method

Likely a scholarly paper or text analysis uploaded to the platform

Time Range

1945-1990

Freshness

Last updated is unknown

Geography

Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia)