Analysis of Gender Perspectives on African Studies in North Africa in Nigeria: An African Perspective
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This study addresses a current research gap in African Studies concerning Gender Perspectives on African Studies in North Africa in Nigeria. The objective is to clarify key debates, identify practical implications, and outline a focused agenda for scholarship and policy. A qualit…
Gulliver's troubles : Nigeria's foreign policy after the Cold War
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Gulliver's Troubles offers the first comprehensive assessment of the post-Cold War foreign policy of Nigeria - one of Africa's most important states. Expert contributors, comprising academics and scholar-diplomats, analyse Nigeria's most vital domestic challenges and critical reg…
Ethical Dimensions of the Foreign Policy of the European Union: A Legal Appraisal
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Urfan Khaliq analyses the theory and practice of the European Union's 'ethical foreign policy', arguing that current practices dilute the impact and efficacy of Union policies but that an effort which is at times effective is being made to protect certain values in the Union's in…
Failed-State Fiction
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Factors Affecting Academic Quality in Nigerian Universities
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Fiscal Federalism in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges and Agenda for Reform
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Resource allocation and management as well as fiscal federalism/decentralization have remained contentious issues in a federal state such as Nigeria. This is because the essence of government at all levels is to bring about rapid economic development through adequate provisions o…
A New Approach: The Need to Focus on Failing States
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In the post-9/11 security paradigm, failed states are considered one of the main threats to international and regional security. However, there remains much debate over what exactly constitutes a failed state. The first point of contention lies in the problem of identifying the i…
The Changing Context ofEthno-Nationalism in Nigeria
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The Nigerian state had experienced a devastating civil war that accounted for the loss of over a million lives between 1967 and 70; yet the issues that led to that war still resonate and stare the nation in the face some decades after. Efforts by successive Nigerian leaders to cr…
The Theocratic Challenge to Constitution Drafting in Post-Conflict States
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The emergence of a new legal order - constitutional theocracy, which is now shared in one form or another by dozens of countries in the developing world - provides important insights into the sociopolitical role of constitutionalism in predominantly religious settings. Regimes th…
Political structure and its ritual expression. The symbolism of initiation rites in two chiefdoms
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The political structure of a society is expressed in rituals, the most impressive being the investiture and installation of the political structure's prominent actors. One has only to think of the coronation ceremonies in our contemporary kingdoms, be they European, African or fr…
Historicizing and Contextualizing the Discourse on African International Law and A Concise Overview of the Pacific Settlement of the Cameroon-Nigeria Bakassi Peninsula Dispute
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Abstract For the past 50 years or so, the media and intellectual discourses on African politics have general portrayed the continent as being in perpetual turmoil. The causes of such conflicts have been related, but not limited, to the outcome of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85…
The Nigerian Air Force in a Changing Security Environment
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The African search for stable forms of statehood : essays in political criticism
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Foreword by Toyin Falola Acknowledgements Introduction Section I: Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations Shifting Modes of Politics in Africa: Theoretical and Conceptual Imperatives - Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o Section II: The Politics of Democratization in East Africa Contempo…
Towards Securing Fiscal Policy Coordination in Nigeria
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A federal state, or a federation, is one in which political power is shared among central or national authority and a number of sub-national authorities, generally under the terms of a constitution (Roberts, 1999). In a federation, definite powers are allotted to the central gove…
The 2005 Food Crisis as Seen through the Media
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This text retraces how the media followed the 2005 food crisis, highlighting the major themes that gradually emerged. It attempts to understand the dynamic and extent of the media's keen interest in the issue. Which media showed interest in the food crisis and when did that inter…
Nigeria-India relations in the 21st century
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Truth Telling and the Fragility of Democracy
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Democracy is a fragile form of government. Its success depends on a high level of public trust in its institutions. Trust in the system allows minorities to believe that in time power could be delivered to them. When this trust is maintained, the 'miracle' of democracy is that th…
The Challenges of Security Sector Governance in Nigeria
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Nigeria-United States Relations: Perspectives on Political Change in Africa
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A Glottopolitical Appraisal of Diversity in Nation Building in Nigeria
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