Republicans versus Democrats: A Critical and Comparative Analysis of the Us Foreign Policy, With a Special Focus on Africa

Although all the American presidents' foreign policy has focused on confirming and maintaining America as the super economic, political and military power, there seem to exista clear cut difference in the management of international issues, whether the ruling partyis the Democrats or the Republicans. If it seems to the American successive leaders that “keeping the union, insuring domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense,…”1 depends on the amount of strengths they show to the rest of the world; it is also apparent that from the Democrats ruling of the USA to the Republicans', there is an impression that the entire world has moved from peace to unrest, with war scenes here and there in the world, promoted or supported the US Republican administration, on the premise of fighting terrorists abroad, promoting democracy or exercising their rights of humanitarian assistance