Research Papers/Topics in History And International Studies
Models of Foreign Policy Decision Making
Foreign policy decision making is an approach in international relations that aimed at explaining choices made by leaders, small groups or coalitions representing their nation-state in the international arena. This paper examines different models of foreign policy decision making, such as Rational actor model, Game theory model, Bureaucratic politics model and Hero-in-history model, among others. According to the rational actor model, the outcome of a decision are the product...
Concentricism and Neo-colonialism: The African case
ABSTRACT How to protect and balance their National interests and sovereignty in theface of Neo-colonialist tendencies and activities from Developed American, European and Asian Nations, has right from the period of decolonization in the early 1960s, been a problem to Africa and Her leaders. As these Nations, tend to continuously encroach on the sovereignty and domestic policies of African Nations. Therefore, to take a foreign policy posture in the current global political sc...
The Wisdom of the Strong: The Struggle in the Multi Polar System
The Stranger happens to be one of the series of letters in my collection that bears the characteristics of the nature of the international state in motion . It is however not the only work I have documented / analysed in international relations but it stands out because it fully explain the relation of moving states which at times were running amok. In this system there is a hidden plan / purpose , these plans could be fathom 1 by the human mind and intelle...
A Critique on Logic behind Economics and Trade Union in Nigeria.
INTRODUCTION The essence for trade was for the purpose of creating more wealth.1 It isaxiomatic to express that nations must not buy more than it can sell. Thiscontract with the view which states that nations should reduce their level ofexchange...
The End of Nation States in International Relation
In my last lecture in International relations , I explained that nations enter into relations as strangers and come out as strangers . The International System is a concept in International relation which is a discipline assigned to study the relation that exit between state and state; and at the same time state and non state actors . The aim of a system like field is to help student of the discipline to understand its respective parts . The International system is exp...
A Case Study of The Cause And Effect Of Africa State Colonization By The European Nation
Colonialism is the direct and overall domination of one country by another on the basis of state power being in the hands of a foreign power (For example, the direct and overall domination of Nigeria by Britain between 1900-1960). The first objective of colonialism is political domination. Its second objective is to make possible the exploitation of the colonized country. When we talk of colonialism in Africa we are talking of phenomenon which took place between the 1800-1960s. It is a ...
Nigeria's Foreign Policy and National Interest from 1960-2015
TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle Page - - - - - - - - - iApproval Page - - - - - - - - iiDeclaration - - - - - - - - - iiiDedication - - - - - - - - - ivAcknowledgement - - - - - - - - - vTable of Contents - - - - - - - - - viMapCHAPTER ONEGENERAL INTRODUCTION1.1 Background to the study - - - - - - - 11.2 Statement of problem and research questions - - - - 51.3 Aims and objectives of study - - - - - - 81.4 Significance of the study - - - - - - - 91.5 Scope and Delimitation - - - - - - - 91.6 Res...
THE POLITICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCE IN NIGERIA 2009-2020
ABSTRACTBoko Haram figuratively implies that western for non-Islamic education is a sin, is a very controversial Nigeria militant group that seeks for the imposition of sharia law in the entire northern states of Nigeria. The hierarchical structure of the group is not presently well defined. The official name of the group id jamaiatu Ahlis sunna lidda ―awai waljihad, which in Arabic translate to ―people committed to the propagation of the prophet’s teaching and jhad literally therefore ...
The Chain of Climate Change, Scarcity and Conflict in Global Politics
To state that climate change and environment issues are becoming increasingly important in the realm of International Relations is an understatement. Mitigation and adaptation debates, strategies and mechanisms are all developed at the international level, often demonstrating the nuances of international politics and governance. The changes experienced in the environment have in many ways been identified as plausible causes of violent intergroup conflict. These changes inc...
A NOTE ON PEACE AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF GENERAL BURATAI : A HISTORICAL CRITICISM OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
This paper study's the activities of Boko Haram in the International system and Nigeria. This idea which emerged from the Generals comment which state that the Nigeria army should use prayer and Fatha to combat Boko Haram has caused echo around all circle hence the need for this paper. The paper span across three civilian regime .
BERLIN CONFERENCE OF 1884, AND ITS AFTERMATH ON AFRICA
Abstract Africa had lives peacefully before the advent of European colonial imperialism. We have had peaceful coexistence. Though the issue of language barer was rampant, yet there were hardly ethnic conflicts amongst African people. They fashioned a means to defend their territories and their weaker one such as the women and children. Africa never knew she was basking in the ecstasy of splendour until the incursion of European Colonial Powers. Before the early 1880s, Europeans had colossal ...
Oil Boom and Underdevelopment: The Challenges of Premium Motor Spirit Importation into Nigeria 1999-2016
ABSTRACT This research examined how the Oil Boom in Nigeria has underdeveloped the nation ratherthan develop and also examining the challenges or problem faced in premium motor spiritimportation into the country as a result of &nbs...
HOW THE MYTH OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM SHAPED ITS FOREIGN POLICY DURING THE COLD WAR
Each nation tends to see itself as unique. In its claim of the master race, German or Aryan races consider themselves the highest in an assumed racial hierarchy. France and her theory of Assimilation pride herself to be more superior to any other existing culture. With her population, financial and human resources within the continent, Nigeria considers itself as the “Giant of Africa”. With its advancement in North America and her ideology of expansionism, the United States pro...
AFRICA AS THE CENTERPIECE OF NIGERIA’S FOREIGN POLICY: A HISTORICAL REFLECTION OF THE GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON’S REGIME,1966 – 1975
States do not live in a state of complete isolation. They need to interact with others because most of what they desire to make life worth living is not found within their territories. The most common relationship among states in the world today is through foreign policy. Nigeria has participated in this practice over the years. For many years, Africa was the centrepiece of the Nigerian foreign policy. With this policy, Nigeria had overwhelmingly given both solicited and unsolicited support t...
Beyond the Window Dressing-Contrasting Perspective Anchors on Development Bail out in the Peripheries
Development pathways available to the so-called periphery countries/societies of modern world are varied and controversial. Development theorists, writers and scholars are wide apart vis-à-vis convergence of consensual paradigm that is germane to pursue the course of holistic development of the periphery in the world political and economic landscape. This article is a dispassionate critique of the strengths and pitfalls deducible from the perspective horizon of the three dominant schools of ...