THE INTERNAL POLITICS AND NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY (1993 – 1998)

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THE INTERNAL POLITICS AND NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY (1993 – 1998)

Abstract:

Since ages, nations have come to constantly face with the fact that their survival is delicately tied in a complex way, to among several other things, one important factor over which they have no iron clad guarantee of control but which they as a matter of necessity and must seek to influence. Tins factor is the external environment that is the sum total of the behaviours of other status. In other words states must necessarily strive all the time within the resource capability to secure and determine those external conditions that hold varying implication not only to their survival as independent and sovereign actors in International politic; i field but also to their ability to be heard and respected. We must then see that these politics, orientations, objectives and strategies nations gets committed to as a relationship to other nations have specific domestic interests. The point is that foreign policy is the attitude and commitment towards the external environment and that, the strategy for achieving domestic goals and external objectives, has a domestic motivating forces. Recognizing the need, necessity and importance of domestic currents unfolding and largely responsible for the foreign policy goals we have set for our selves primarily attempts to look at some of these domestic factors in Nigeria from 1993 – 1998 as they affect and shaped foreign policy in Nigeria having in mind the Federal character of the Nigerian slate. One remarkable feature of Nigeria is that it is a federation. And by implications this seems to influence every important policy be it domestic or foreign. Federal structure here refers to the form of allocation of resources and power between the central government and the state. By and large Nigerian federalism is bedded and endemiccrisis-wise. This is largely due to its pluralistic and heterogeneous nature characterized by among others cultural diversity, social cleavages etc, which always manifest at the level of politics. And by extension generate conflicts and tension which usually threatened the stability of the federating states and has consequential effect with the external environment. It is hoped that this work shall contribute to the ongoing scholarship on the role of the domestic emergent currents unfolding vis-a-vis foreign policy formulations and implementations in Nigeria.

THE INTERNAL POLITICS AND NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY (1993 – 1998)

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