THE INTERNAL POLITICS AND NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY (1993 - 1998)
THE INTERNAL POLITICS AND NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY (1993 - 1998)
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2000-03
Authors
ABDULLAHI, ABUBAKAR
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Abstract
Since ages, nations have come to constantly face with the fact that their survival
is delicately tied in a complex way, to among several other things, one important factor
over which they have no iron clad guarantee of control but which they as a matter of
necessity and must seek to influence. Tins factor is the external environment that is the
sum total of the behaviours of other status. In other words states must necessarily strive
all the time within the resource capability to secure and determine those external
conditions that hold varying implication not only to their survival as independent and
sovereign actors in International politic; i field but also to their ability to be heard and
respected.
We must then see that these politics, orientations, objectives and strategies nations
gets committed to as a relationship to other nations have specific domestic interests. The
point is that foreign policy is the attitude and commitment towards the external
environment and that, the strategy for achieving domestic goals and external objectives,
has a domestic motivating forces.
Recognizing the need, necessity and importance of domestic currents unfolding
and largely responsible for the foreign policy goals we have set for our selves primarily
attempts to look at some of these domestic factors in Nigeria from 1993 - 1998 as they
affect and shaped foreign policy in Nigeria having in mind the Federal character of the
Nigerian slate. One remarkable feature of Nigeria is that it is a federation. And by implications
this seems to influence every important policy be it domestic or foreign. Federal
structure here refers to the form of allocation of resources and power between the central
government and the state. By and large Nigerian federalism is bedded and endemiccrisis-wise.
This is largely due to its pluralistic and heterogeneous nature characterized
by among others cultural diversity, social cleavages etc, which always manifest at the
level of politics. And by extension generate conflicts and tension which usually
threatened the stability of the federating states and has consequential effect with the
external environment.
It is hoped that this work shall contribute to the ongoing scholarship on the role
of the domestic emergent currents unfolding vis-a-vis foreign policy formulations and
implementations in Nigeria.
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THESIS SUMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL AHMADU BELLO
UNIVERSITY ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFIILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR
AWARD OF MASTERS OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND DIPLOMACY
MARCH, 2000
Keywords
INTERNAL,, POLITICS,, NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY