IJPSD

ISSN: 2360-784X

 International Journal of Political Science and Development
 

International Journal of Political Science and Development

Vol. 8(7), pp. 295-304, August, 2020. 

DOI: 10.14662/IJPSD2020.175

ISSN: 2360-784X

Research

The Foreign Policy Implications of Nigeria’s Security Crisis: 2010-2019.

Mustapha, Ayodele Haruna¹; Musa, Toyib Olaniyi²; Enikanoselu, Bayo³

Department of Social Sciences, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria.

Corresponding author’s Email address: harunmustapha721@ gmail.com

Accepted 14 July 2020

Nigeria is a regional power in Africa and West Africa sub-region, has robust foreign policy and security objective principles since her independence (though all these are changing with the dynamics of international politics).  It has pursued Afrocentric and global agenda for peace, security and collective wellbeing of all sovereign states and respect human race with the observance of human rights and rule of law. The foreign and security policies of any given nation deal with the general issues of the coordination and management of many threats to vital core values and general context as national interest and security policies are imperative in municipal and international relations. Over the years, insecurity occasioned by terrorism, insurgency, communal violence , piracy, banditry, kidnapping, human trafficking and cross borders crimes have become topical issues that have threaten the sovereignty and corporate existence of Nigeria. All these related security challenges have multiplying and snowballing implications on the foreign policy of Nigeria by labelling and targeting it as failed state, fragile political system, hostile environment, hide-out for terrorists, unfriendly country where foreign investors cannot invest and unstable country. The further implications for its foreign policy are that the Nigeria’s regional global image has been grossly affected as its commitment to regional and global campaign for peace and collective security against terrorism, insurgency and criminality toward collective efforts on security challenges are highly doubtful and sceptical of purpose and clarity. The paper posits to provide possible solutions such as curtailing and managing the consequences of violence, and dialogue strategies aimed at eliminating small arms and light weapons, broad dimensions of intervention of good governance, security and diplomacy application, food, health, job and environmental security should be provided and sustained within the country thoroughly. The paper makes use of secondary source to elicit data for the study, while it adopts concentric circles theory and relative deprivation theory as its theoretical framework to midwife the study. 

Keywords: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Immediate Neighbour, National Interest, Security framework, Threats Perception