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INTRODUCTION Foreign policy according to White is ‘government activity conducted with relationships between state and other actors, particularly other states, in the international system’ (White 1989: 1, italics added). Yet as White admits, this definition does not include other forms of collective actors like the European Union (EU) that also conduct foreign policy activities. Rosenau offers an even simpler definition, defining foreign policy as the external behavior of states (Rosenau ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background to the Study Foreign policy has become a useful component that defines relations between and amongst states. Generally, we may say, a country‟s foreign policy thrust bottles the totality of the acts, strategies and manipulations by a given state in her process of launching her domestic resolve in the international arena. Chibundu (2003:1) crisply notes that foreign policy is “a country‟s response to the world ...

Abstract Foreign Policy is the engine room of decision-making, it is viewed to be one of the greatest instrument at a state’s disposal to pursue its national interests. It is considered as a full political activity of states. A good Foreign Policy would obviously lead a state in fulfilling its national interests and acquiring rightful place among comity of nations. As such the study of Foreign Policy forms an important ...

CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND Foreign Policy is a set of carefully articulated goals and objectives which nation-states seek to realize and actualize in the conduct of their relationships with other states. It is also a series of responses which a nation-state offers to the demands which other states put before it. Foreign policy could also be defined as a set of continuously redefined attitudes and dispositions which a state brings ...

Abstract Every vibrant foreign policy derives its strength from the domestic angle, that is, from the needs of the country and the populace. For several years past, Africa was the centerpiece of Nigeria’s foreign policy and, therefore, spent heavily pursuing foreign policies of decolonization and apartheid. This policy emphasized aggressive championing of the freedom of African countries such as Congo, Angola and Mozambique then reeling under the yoke of colonialism ...