Partner or Hegemon? Reassessing Nigeria’s Conflict Intervention Behaviour in Africa

Olumuyiwa Amao ()
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Olumuyiwa Amao: Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa

A chapter in A Sleeping Giant?, 2021, pp 159-176 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Nigeria’s history of conflict intervention in Africa is impressive. Within West Africa, Nigeria has intervened in nearly all the conflicts in the sub-region. Abuja has also been a driving force for sub-regional and regional integration on the continent. From its instrumental role in the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963, to its eventual transformation to the African Union (AU) in 2002, Nigeria has and continues to provide leadership. Using the historical approach as instrument of analysis, this chapter contributes to the foreign policy analysis literature on Nigeria by retrospectively appraising its conflict intervention role in Africa since independence. It poses the critical but often neglected question: to what extent does Nigeria’s personalised foreign policy process shape its foreign policy behaviour and conflict intervention roles in Africa?

Keywords: Afrocentrism; Africa; Foreign policy; Conflict intervention; Nigeria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73375-9_12

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