Foreign policy and the Black (inter)national interest

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Black Global Politics in a Post-Cold War World / Charles P. Henry -- Ch. 1. The African Growth and Opportunity Act: Changing Foreign Policy Priorities toward Africa in a Conservative Political Culture / Ronald Walters -- Ch. 2. Transnational Philanthropy and African American Education / Allen Caldwell -- Ch. 3. We Are the World: Race and the International War on Drugs / Clarence Lusane -- Ch. 4. The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Implications for Challenging Racial Hierarchy / James Jennings -- Ch. 5. United States Human Rights Petitions before the United Nations / Charles P. Henry and Tunua Thrash -- Ch. 6. Sanctions, Black America, and Apartheid: Vindicating the Promise of Peaceful Change / Winston P. Nagan -- Ch. 7. United States Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Challenges of Nation-State Rebuildings in Post-War Liberia / Keith Jennings and Celena Slade --

Ch. 8. The Democratization Trade in Haiti: International Influence since Duvalier / Lorenzo Morris -- Ch. 9. Afro-Creole Nationalism as Elite Domination: The English-Speaking West Indies / Percy C. Hintzen -- Ch. 10. Defining National Security: The African American Stake in U.S. Defense and Foreign Policy Formulation / Ronald V. Dellums -- Ch. 11. The Personal Road to Diplomacy / Ronald D. Palmer.

"This book gives voice to ways in which our foreign policy has fallen short of multicultural democratic ideals and suggests corrective measures.

Covering such global issues as drug and arms control, trade, democracy-building and education, and such country-specific situations as Haiti, Liberia, South Africa, and the Caribbean, from both academic and practitioners' points of view, it proves that "all politics are local and global." In doing so, it asks the question, can a multicultural democratic country produce a multicultural democratic foreign policy?"--BOOK JACKET.