1st Edition
Nigeria's Soft Power in Anglophone West Africa Insights from Ghana and Liberia
By Fidel Abowei
Copyright 2024
242 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Fidel Abowei is a visiting lecturer at the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham, United Kingdom.
