ABSTRACT This Dissertation analyses the functionalist assumptions and evaluates then in the light of ECOWAS experience. An important retionale for this is to ascertain the degree to which a European based origin of functional ist theory despite the underdevelopment character of the ECOWAS sub-region makes functionalism as a theory of integration an attractive policy guide in the sub-regions developmental process. An important proposition investigated in this dissertation is the contention tha...
ABSTRACT Since the colonial era, Africa has remained a victim of circumstances such that it has been affected by a range of problems that make its population suffer in many ways. One of the problems that continue haunting Africa, particularly most of its third world countries is poverty. Zimbabwe is one of those countries that have been deeply affected by crippling poverty levels. The problem of hunger has been exacerbated by the volatile political atmosphere, tremendous socio-economic upheav...
ABSTRACT Whereas non-state actors seem to have contributed towards removing obstacles to citizens’ engagement in public policy process, their actual role in public policy process remains unclear particularly, how they have opened public policy process to make it more inclusive. This study set out to investigate the contribution of non-state actors to making public policy process in Kenya inclusive. It examines how non-state actors have used their power, policy networks, policy learning and ...
ABSTRACT This research work studied the Economic Community of West African States Cease-Fire Monitoring Group's (ECOMOG's) experience, against the backdrop of regional security and conflict resolution in West Africa. It tried to establish a relationship between economic integration of ECOWAS and the resolution of regional conflict in West Africa. In other words, it attempted to establish an understanding of the prospects, possibilities and limitations of using an economic integration body, li...
Introduction In an age of intersecting revolutions - military, political, economic, social - as we have in Africa today, the problems of maintaining peace and international order, inevitably become more complex. Yearly, events in Africa stress the urgent need for African states to intervene in African affairs. The acquisition of sophisticated and unlimited force by African nations is certainly as terrifying as it is new. But it must be borne in mind that this transforms conflicts rather than ...
ABSTRACT The comparative study of the foreign policy of Republics of Benin and Niger reveals a Franco-Nigerian tussle over who dominates the external behaviour of the two Francophone States. The French Republic claims an almost absolute right to determine the direction of the foreign policy of these two states with imperialistic machinery as her weapons. Nigeria the other hand. Since 1970 has been seeking to influence the foreign policy of Benin and Niger through a lot of means including aid,...
Abstract This study is motivated by the raging debate between the speaker and the hearer of political utterances on mutually acceptable interpretations of meaning in political utterances on hate speech in Kenya. This debate between the speaker and hearer of political utterances on hate speech reflects a variance on interpretation of meaning in political utterances on hate speech. This study sheds light on this variance by offering a pragmatic interpretation of political utterances on hate spe...
ABSTRACT Most studies in political protest lack behavioral content. They focus on group actions such as industrial strikes, street demonstrations, riots and sit-ins; without explaining the behaviour of the individuals who partake in them. They also lack perspectives on the dynamics of factors that influence the behaviour of individual protesters as well as the forms that their protests take. Consequently, scholarly understanding of political protest appears narrow, and most theories that evo...
ABSTRACT The post-Cold War saw the emergence of small arms control treaties as a major framework for promoting global peace and security. However, the implementation of some of these instruments has to date proven ineffective and, thus, a central issue in scholarly debates on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) control. SALW continued to flow to areas of conflict, and to non-state armed groups around the world. Extant literature suggested that structural imbalance in international configurati...
ABSTRACT The major political challenge in Africa and many other developing countries today is how to deal with the national question and democratic consolidation. There is a general feeling that the developing nations’ past had been squandered, and the present mortgaged by the elites, thereby making the future so uncertain. Consequently, the disadvantaged group demands a renegotiation of relations between the power elites and the people to enable them to be fully involved in the process of ...
Abstract The State as a political entity is confronted with several crosscutting challenges that often times transcend formation boundaries the post-Formation emergent contradictions, complexities and paradoxes are usually adequately amplified by political power relationships. This is even more so in multicultural States where the logic of standard majoritarian democratic philosophy, a la ancient Greece, has failed many times. This thesis is about devising structures and institutions suitable...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the contributions of Multi-national oil companies in Nigeria to indigenous human capital development in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria between 1993 and 2002. Interest on this contemporary issue emerged as a result of complaints by indigenes of Host Communities of Multi-national oil companies in Niger Delta Region in Nigeria. They complained of not being equipped with relevant skills for employment or self-employment. To address this research problem, the study out...
ABSTRACT The issue of public service performance and productivity whereby public officials are required to provide the public with the best service possible is a major challenge for the modern civil service. The Nigerian federal civil service which has grown bulky in the last decade after Independence faces the problem of utilizing its manpower to meet public demand for increasingly better service. The general motion still persists that government staff work less and that the services they re...
ABSTRACT Nigerian leaders since independence in 1960 have proclaimed adherence to the universal convention of predicating the foreign policy of the country on the domestic policies which should emphasize citizens‟ welfare and good governance. With the inception of globalization that has integrated the various countries of the world reducing their distinctiveness over the last three decades, Nigeria‟s foreign policy has transformed but this has not been sufficiently addressed by scholarly...
ABSTRACT In contemporary scholarship, the discourse on local government system has shifted from the debate on the requisite level of autonomy for local government administration, to the more topical issue of the impact of the local government system on grassroots development. Whereas scholars are agreed on the import of local government in any form of governmental contraption, however, there are divergent views on the extent of the role of the local government system in community development...