Nigeria's Soft Power in Anglophone West Africa

Insights from Ghana and Liberia
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-50036-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

Reihe: African Governance

This book investigates Nigeria’s soft power capabilities in West Africa, demonstrating the extent to which the power of attraction may serve the country’s foreign policy interests.

With the increasing popularity of internationally acclaimed cultural outputs, including afrobeat, Nollywood, and charismatic Pentecostalism, and a foreign policy disposition that is altruistic and sparsely transactional, there is increasing interest in how these soft power attributes influence perceptions of Nigeria in Africa. Drawing on extensive original research in Ghana and Liberia, this book highlights the attractive and unattractive elements of Nigeria’s soft power potential. In so far as it makes the case for Nigeria’s soft power in West Africa, it also discusses the challenges encumbering the effective deployment of the full range of Nigeria’s soft power capabilities in the operationalization of its African policy.

This book is a timely contribution to prevailing scholarly discussions about the nature and utility of soft power in Africa. It will be of interest to both Africanists and researchers of international relations, foreign policy, and political science more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abowei, Fidel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication List of Tables List of Figures Forward Acknowledgement Abbreviations. Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2: Soft Power: Theoretical, Conceptual, and Methodological Perspectives. Chapter 3. Classical Realism and Soft Power. Chapter 4. The West African Context. Chapter 5. Interrogating Nigeria’s Soft Power Potential. Chapter 6. Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Behaviour in West Africa. Chapter 7. Elite Attitudes towards Nigeria in Liberia and Ghana. Chapter 8. Foreign Policy Outcomes as a Measure of Soft Power Capability. Chapter 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Fidel Abowei is a visiting lecturer at the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham, United Kingdom.