Nigeria's Border Diplomacy
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Nigeria's Border Diplomacy

Power and Hegemony in Africa

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eBook - ePub

Nigeria's Border Diplomacy

Power and Hegemony in Africa

About this book

This book examines the ways in which Nigeria's borders are used as instruments of soft and hard power in the country's relations with other African states.

Across land, air, sea, cyberspace, and even outer space, Nigeria uses its borders to insert the country into the heart of African geopolitics. Drawing on the African realist conception of African internationalism, this book analyses how the country exerts the geographic advantage of its territoriality as a diplomatic instrument to assert its regional aspirations. The authors also examine how Nigeria positions itself amongst its direct West African neighbours and within the ECOWAS 'borderless Protocols' and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the book goes further to consider how Nigeria uses non-physical borders, deploying space exploration and cyber security initiatives to further its hegemonic influence in Africa.

This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of Political Science, International Relations, Border Studies and African Studies.

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Yes, you can access Nigeria's Border Diplomacy by Oladotun E. Awosusi,Olusola Ogunnubi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & African Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Illustrations
  8. Abbreviations
  9. About the Authors
  10. Foreword
  11. Preface
  12. Acknowledgements
  13. 1 Introduction
  14. 2 Complementarity or Competition?: Nigeria’s Border Diplomacy in Africa
  15. 3 Nigeria’s ‘Border Diplomacy’: Rhetoric or Substance for Regional Hegemonic Leadership?
  16. 4 Nigeria’s Role in the ECOWAS Protocol and the AfCFTA ‘Borderless Arrangements’: Regional ‘Bully’ or Hegemon?
  17. 5 Nigeria’s Maritime Diplomacy in Africa’s ‘Blue Corridors’: Prospects for Regional Hegemony
  18. 6 Nigeria’s Cyber Diplomacy in Africa: A New Border Approach?
  19. 7 Geopolitics of Boundaries and the Diplomacy of Outer Space in Nigeria-Africa Relations
  20. 8 Conclusion: Centring African Realist Thoughts into Border Diplomacy and Regional Hegemony Scholarship
  21. Index