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Nigeria's Intervention in the Sierra Leonean Civil War

This article employs the ‘hegemony theory' to examine Nigeria's inter-state relations visà- vis Sierra Leone within the broad context of the West African sub-regional multilateral institutional framework, ECOWAS. This study examines Nigeria's self-imposed leadership role, as enunciated in its foreign policy, and uncovers the dilemma of preventive diplomacy vs an insurgent/irregular confl ict scenario by a non-neutral party. It also scrutinises Nigeria's status as a benign hegemon and the country's quandary caused by its own economic crisis, in the midst of being the major fi nancier of a milit…