This research report is a study of US foreign policy towards Kenya. The context of the
study is informed by the role that the US played in Kenya’s democratisation process in
the post-Cold War era, the 1998 US embassy attacks in Kenya, and US policy following
the events of 11 September 2001. The study sets out to examine how these events
subsequently affected the domestic policies of Kenya. It identifies the continuities and
new avenues of the bilateral relations between Kenya and the US. Democracy, terrorism
and US foreign policy are the underlying factors of the study.
