Nigeria's Soft Power in Anglophone West Africa
eBook - ePub

Nigeria's Soft Power in Anglophone West Africa

Insights from Ghana and Liberia

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nigeria's Soft Power in Anglophone West Africa

Insights from Ghana and Liberia

About this book

This book investigates Nigeria's soft power capabilities in West Africa, demonstrating the extent to which the power of attraction may serve the country's foreign policy interests.

With the increasing popularity of internationally acclaimed cultural outputs, including afrobeat, Nollywood, and charismatic Pentecostalism, and a foreign policy disposition that is altruistic and sparsely transactional, there is increasing interest in how these soft power attributes influence perceptions of Nigeria in Africa. Drawing on extensive original research in Ghana and Liberia, this book highlights the attractive and unattractive elements of Nigeria's soft power potential. In so far as it makes the case for Nigeria's soft power in West Africa, it also discusses the challenges encumbering the effective deployment of the full range of Nigeria's soft power capabilities in the operationalization of its African policy.

This book is a timely contribution to prevailing scholarly discussions about the nature and utility of soft power in Africa. It will be of interest to both Africanists and researchers of international relations, foreign policy, and political science more broadly.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Foreword
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Abbreviations
  13. 1 Introduction
  14. 2 Soft Power: Theoretical, Conceptual, and Methodological Perspectives
  15. 3 Classical Realism and Soft Power
  16. 4 The West African Context
  17. 5 Interrogating Nigeria’s Soft Power Potential
  18. 6 Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Behaviour in West Africa
  19. 7 Elite Attitudes towards Nigeria in Liberia and Ghana
  20. 8 Foreign Policy Outcomes as a Measure of Soft Power Capability
  21. 9 Conclusions
  22. Appendices
  23. Index