NIGERIA IN GLOBAL POLITICS: TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND -- NIGERIA IN GLOBAL POLITICS: TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PART I. NIGERIA, DOMESTIC AND REGIONAL POLITICS -- Chapter 1: DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA -- INTRODUCTION -- DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS IN NIGERIA -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2: AUTHORITARIAN MINDSET, POLITICS AND DEMOCRATIC RULE IN NIGERIA -- INTRODUCTION: THE TRANSITION TO CIVIL RULE MAY 1999 -- THE AUTHORITARIAN IMPERATIVE: INTERROGATING THE DYNAMICS OF THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL MINDSET -- THE AUTHORITARIAN FOUNDATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR -- NIGERIA'S FOURTH REPUBLIC: POLITICS AND CIVIL RULE -- APPRAISING DEMOCRACY IN ACTION -- CONCLUSION: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION -- Chapter 3: FEDERAL CHARACTER IN NIGERIA: BANE OR BLESSING? -- INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE NEED FOR FEDERAL CHARACTER -- 3. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION MEASURES -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4: THE DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY: THE NIGERIA EXPERIENCE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE GLOBAL INFLUENCE ON NIGERIAN POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5: PEACEKEEPERS ABROAD, TROUBLE-MAKERS AT HOME: THE NIGERIAN MILITARY, NATIONAL POLITICS AND SUB-REGIONAL POLICY IN THE 1990S -- INTRODUCTION -- NATIONAL AND SUB-REGIONAL PICTURE AT THE DAWN OF THE 1990 DECADE -- PEACEKEEPERS ABROAD -- TROUBLEMAKERS AT HOME -- NATIONAL POLITICS, SUB-REGIONAL POLITICS AND THE DEMOCRATIC DAWN -- SECURITY SECTOR REFORM AND DEMOCRATIC RULE IN NIGERIA -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6: INTERNATIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON FOREIGN POLICY FORMULATION: A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA AND REGIONAL SECURITY IN WEST AFRICA -- INTRODUCTION -- MAJOR CLAIMS OF REALISM -- THE CONCEPT OF SECURITY -- REGIONAL SECURITY -- DIPLOMATIC BASIS OF REGIONAL SECURITY.

REGIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF THE COALITION -- NIGERIA AND REGIONAL LEADERSHIP -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 7: RESTORING DEMOCRACY IN SIERRA LEONE: NIGERIA'S HEGEMONIC FOREIGN POLICY IN WEST AFRICA, 1993 - 1998 -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND TO THE COUP -- MAKING SIERRA LEONE SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY: THE DYNAMICS OF REGIONAL INTERVENTION -- NIGERIA AND UNILATERAL MILITARY INTERVENTION -- NIGERIA, ECOWAS, AND DIPLOMATIC INITIATIVES -- ECOMOG AND NIGERIA'S HEGEMONY: FROM LIBERIA TO SIERRA LEONE -- THE SECOND BATTLE OF FREETOWN -- NIGERIA AND POST-AFRC SIERRA LEONE -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 8: NIGERIA AND THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN LIBERATION STRUGGLE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BALEWA ADMINISTRATION, 1960-1966: THE RELUCTANT WARRIOR -- MUHAMMED/OBANSANJO ADMINISTRATION: NIGERIA AND THE ANGOLAN CRISIS -- OBASANJO'S ADMINISTRATION: THE ZIMBABWEAN INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE -- ISOLATING THE WHITE MINORITY REGIME OF SOUTH AFRICA -- THE SECOND REPUBLIC/BABANGIDA-ABACHA ADMINISTRATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- PART II. NIGERIA IN GLOBAL POLITICS -- Chapter 9: ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA AND NIGERIA'S FOUNDATION OF ANON-NEUTRALIST FOREIGN POLICY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND TO NON-NEUTRALITY -- SIR ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA AND THE FORMATION OF NON-NEUTRALIST POLICY -- ANGLO-NIGERIAN DEFENSE PACT AS AN ASPECT OF NON-NEUTRALISM -- TAFAWA BALEWA, THE STERLING AREA AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMONWEALTH -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 10: AN ELUSIVE FRIENDSHIP: NIGERIAN SOVIET/RUSSIAN RELATIONS, 1960-2000 -- THE ANTI-COMMUNISM OF THE BALEWA ADMINISTRATION -- THE BIAFRA SURPRISE -- POST BIAFRA DOLDRUMS -- THE LITMUS TEST OF AJAOKUTA -- THE POST-COLD WAR REASSESSMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 11: NIGERIA AND ISRAEL: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL: THE BEGINNING -- SEVERING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL.

CONTINUITY IN NIGERIAN-ISRAELI RELATIONS -- NIGERIA'S NEW RAPPROCHEMENT WITH ISRAEL -- Chapter 12: NIGERIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE LOME YEARS AND BEYOND -- INTRODUCTION -- THE LAGOS CONVENTION (ABORTIVE) -- NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE LOMÉ CONVENTION -- DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION UNDER LOMÉ -- THE COTONOU AGREEMENT -- FUTURE RELATION WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 13: CHANGING PARADIGM: FRANCE, NIGERIA AND FRANCOPHONE AFRICA AFTER THE COLD WAR -- INTRODUCTION -- NIGERIA AND FRANCE: BETWEEN CONFRONTATION, CONVERGENCE AND CREATIVE AMBIGUITY -- NIGERIA AND FRANCE: 1993-2004 -- BETWEEN HYPOCRISY, ENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST AND GENUINE COOPERATION -- FRANCE AND FRANCOPHONE AFRICA SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR: ECONOMIC AND MILITARY RELATIONS -- FRANCE, FRANCOPHONE AFRICA AND THE FRANC ZONE -- FRANCE AND FRANCOPHONE AFRICA: MILITARY AND DEFENCE COOPERATION -- FRANCE POLITICAL PLURALISM AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICA AFTER THE COLD WAR -- Chapter 14: THE STATE, FOREIGN POLICY, AND CONFLICT IN AFRICA -- INTRODUCTION -- FOREIGN POLICY AND THE POSTCOLONIAL STATE -- CRISES, THE STATE AND FOREIGN POLICY -- GLOBALIZATION, FOREIGN POLICY AND CONFLICT -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 15: NIGERIA, THE UNITED STATES AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM: THE STAKES AND THE STANCE -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND CONTEXT -- FIGHTING GLOBAL TERRORISM IN A WORLD OF FAILED STATES -- NIGERIA, THE UNITED STATES AND THE AL QAEDA THREAT -- THE POLITICS OF TERROR: DIVIDENDS OF WAR -- WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS: HARD POWER VS. SOFT POWER -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 16: THE 911 INCIDENT AND ITS AFTERMATH: IMPLICATIONS FOR NIGERIA-U.S. RELATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE AMERICANS' VIEW OF THEIR OWN WORLD -- THE WORLD WARS AND COLD WAR -- THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC HIT MEN AND THE MULTINATIONALS -- AFTER THE COLD WAR -- ACTIVE RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS -- IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S.-NIGERIA RELATIONS.

THE RACE FACTOR -- OTHER STEPS TO TAKE -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 17: NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY UNDER THE OBASANJO ADMINISTRATION, 1999-2005 -- INTRODUCTION -- OBASANJO'S FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES -- THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY -- WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION -- DOMESTIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN POLICY -- FOREIGN POLICY ACTORS -- FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTIVES -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 18: BIBLIOGRAPHY ON NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1960-2004: NATIONAL, REGIONAL,CONTINENTAL AND GLOBAL -- NATIONAL -- REGIONAL -- CONTINENTAL -- GLOBAL -- POSTSCRIPT THE MAN- PROFESSOR OLAJIDE ALUKO -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- BOOKS -- ARTICLES -- OFFICIAL AND PUBLIC DOCUMENTS -- UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS -- NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS -- BOOKS BY OLAJIDE ALUKO -- ALSO BOOKS BY OLAYIWOLA ABEGUNRIN -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.