The writing of this book is inspired by many considerations. The most important factor is the newness of Citizen Diplomacy as a foreign policy thrust and its misunderstanding. The problem is not that Citizen Diplomacy, as a concept, is new but that its new interpretation in Nigeria is not understood in its appropriate context
This book shows how specific historical events and societal forces within Nigeria transcend the choices its political leaders have made to influence the course of the state's political development. Kalu N. Kalu describes a variety of factors that have contributed to the challenges facing state-building and political institutions in Nigeria. Chief among them are the nature of interest aggregatio…
Nigeria's future as a unified state is in jeopardy. Those who make or execute U.S. policy will find it difficult to advance U.S. interests in Africa without an understanding of the pressures that tear and bind Nigeria. Despite this, the centrifugal forces that tear at the country and the centripetal forces that have kept it whole are not well understood and rarely examined. After establishing N…
1992 has been a momentous year in international affairs and Nigeria's foreign policy machinery has had to respond to a complex variety of developments. At the political level, the end of the East West cold war and the train of events which this development unleashed have encouraged much international debate about a new world order. While considerable uncertainty surrounds what the new world order
There has been an increased interest in adopting the concentric circle in analyzing Nigerian foreign policy since the time of Ibrahim Gambari as External Affairs Minister of Nigeria between 1984 and 1985. He has often argued that more will be gained if scholars and policy-makers develop the layered approach to the study of Nigerian foreign policy. By this, it means that Nigeria's interests in g…