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NATIONAL ROLE CONCEPTIONS AND UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY: A NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE

Covenant Journal of Business and Social Sciences

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Title NATIONAL ROLE CONCEPTIONS AND UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY: A NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE
 
Creator Folarin, Dr. Sheriff
 
Description This paper examines the theory and practice of American foreign policy and how Nigeria, from the lens of the author perceives it. The paper establishes that Nigeria‟s perception of the US and its role conceptions in the world is a combination of awe, admiration and envy. Yet there are similarities in the national character of the two nations. As the “African giant” aspires to become in the future a global power, it considers the American standards as its benchmark for that. The experience and impressions of the author before, during and after a recent Study of the United States Fellowship at the Walker Institute/Department of Political Science of the University of South Carolina, offered useful insights into the politics of American foreign policy, which provided the platform to evaluate the real import of American a ctions in the global system. The paper is thus able to submit that as a result of leadership dynamics or shortcomings, US behaviour in the world is, often misconstrued as altruistic, overbearing, and discriminatory. It therefore recommends, among other things, that the American nation requires much soft landing after the Iraq and Afghanistan disasters as well an image damage control for the country to regain the confidence of the world. The method of analysis is descriptive and analytical, and the data are largely drawn from participation-observation and some secondary literature.
 
Publisher Covenant University
 
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Date 2016-02-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjbss/article/view/31
 
Source Covenant Journal of Business and Social Sciences; June 2013 Volume 5, No.1
2334-5708
2006-0300
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjbss/article/view/31/27
 
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