Africa: The Minerva Research Initiative - The Military-University-Industry Complex Targets Africa

[African Security Research Project] The Pentagon launched the Minerva Research Initiative in 2008 as a ''DoD-sponsored, university-based social science research initiative that focuses on areas of strategic importance to the US national security policy.'' It is intended ''to identify and support basic social science research issues in need of attention and to integrate those research insights into the policy-making environment.'' Each spring, the DoD announces three-year grants (which can be extended up to