Trump Dönemi ABD-Afrika İlişkilerinin Analizi: Değişim ve Süreklilik

This article aims to reveal the parameters of the United States' (US) relations with the African continent in the Trump era. The two main dynamics determining the US policy towards Africa in this period can be summarized as follows: (a) the foreign policy formation process specific to the Trump administration and (b) the lack of US strategic engagement in the context of the growing great power competition on the continent. In this context, the decline of the US political influence in African countries is a result of both the Trump administration's nationalist and anti-globalization ideological approaches and the fact that great powers such as China and Russia have bypassed the US and the Western bloc through different instruments. As a result of all these factors, Trump-era Africa policy has resulted in unilateralism, strategic irrelevance and falling behind in great power competition.