Human Rights in Nigeria's External Relations in the Age of General Muhammadu Buhari and His Successors: Loving the Foreigner as Yourself

Aka, Philip C.

Human Rights in Nigeria's External Relations in the Age of General Muhammadu Buhari and His Successors: Loving the Foreigner as Yourself
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-18
  • 售價: $6,130
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 446
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031632303
  • ISBN-13: 9783031632303

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Under the Fourth Republic since 1999, the challenge Nigerian leaders face like never before is how to create a state that matches the expectations of their diverse peoples at home and abroad. Taking this proposition as starting point, this book advances proposals for a human-right policy, referred to alternately in the work as principled foreign policy, for Nigeria under the Fourth Republic, taking advantage of the inestimable opportunity afforded by General Muhammadu Buhari's departure from the political scene on May 29, 2023, after the famine, domestically and externally, wrought by his two terms of office as President. It is a broad-ranging argument, draped in the less arcane constitutional vocabulary and material of human rights, for thoroughgoing reforms at home and abroad as the only antidote to the nation-building dilemmas Nigeria confronts in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Buhari's departure marks the end of military teleguidance of Nigerian politics under the Fourth Republic in the camouflage of democratic rule, a birthmark of remote control dating back to the first military intervention in the country in January 1966.

These momentous events within Nigeria coincide with equally epoch-making developments in the UK, Nigeria's former colonial overlord, with ripple effects in Nigeria, signified by the death of Queen Elizabeth II, after seven decades on the throne, and the emergence of Prince Charles as King of England. A new monarch in Britain adds to the opportunity that falls open for the reconfiguration of Nigeria's external relations with ramifications for the application of human rights in those relations. Despite its known disabilities, Nigeria has the potential infrastructure, including its sizable population, to conduct a human-right policy, if its leaders rationalize the country's resources more wisely.

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在自1999年以來的第四共和國時期，尼日利亞領導人面臨的挑戰前所未有，那就是如何創建一個能夠滿足國內外多元人民期望的國家。以此命題為出發點，本書提出了針對第四共和國尼日利亞的人權政策建議，該政策在書中也被稱為原則性外交政策，並利用了穆罕默杜·布哈里將於2023年5月29日離開政治舞台所帶來的無法估量的機會，因為他兩屆總統任期內造成的國內外饑荒。這是一個廣泛的論點，使用較不晦澀的憲法詞彙和人權材料，主張在國內外進行徹底改革，作為解決尼日利亞在21世紀第一個四分之一面臨的國家建設困境的唯一解藥。布哈里的離開標誌著在第四共和國期間，尼日利亞政治的軍事遠程指導在民主統治的偽裝下的結束，這一現象可以追溯到1966年1月該國的第一次軍事干預。

這些在尼日利亞發生的重大事件與英國的同樣具有歷史意義的發展相吻合，英國是尼日利亞的前殖民統治者，這些事件在尼日利亞引發了連鎖反應，特別是伊莉莎白二世女王在位七十年後的去世，以及查爾斯王子成為英國國王的出現。英國的新君主為尼日利亞外部關係的重新配置提供了機會，這對於人權在這些關係中的應用具有深遠的影響。儘管尼日利亞存在已知的缺陷，但如果其領導人能更明智地合理化國家的資源，尼日利亞擁有進行人權政策的潛在基礎設施，包括其龐大的人口。

作者簡介

Philip C. Aka is Regional Director of Global Academics Coalition, LLC, a US higher-education consultancy based in Gainesville, Florida, as well as former Dean and Professor of Law, International University of Sarajevo, among other prior academic positions in the US in Political Science, and Criminal Justice. A member of the Illinois State Bar since November 2004, Professor Aka received a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree from the Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indianapolis, IN; a PhD degree in political science from Howard University, Washington, DC; a Juris Doctorate (JD) degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA; an LL.M. degree with summa cum laude from the Robert H. McKinney School of Law; an MA degree in political science from the University of North Texas, Denton, TX; and a BA degree in political science with magna cum laude from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA. Most recently, Professor Aka completed two graduate certificate programs, including one in Conflict Resolution from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in June 2021. A former Fulbright Specialist on Electoral Reforms in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Professor Aka has authored or coauthored more than 110 publications, including nine books.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Philip C. Aka 是 Global Academics Coalition, LLC 的區域總監，該公司是一家位於佛羅里達州蓋恩斯維爾的美國高等教育諮詢公司。他曾擔任薩拉熱窩國際大學的法學院院長及教授，以及在美國政治學和刑事司法領域的其他學術職位。自2004年11月以來，他是伊利諾伊州律師公會的成員。Aka 教授在印第安納州印第安納波利斯的 Robert H. McKinney 法學院獲得法學博士（SJD）學位；在華盛頓特區的霍華德大學獲得政治學博士（PhD）學位；在賓夕法尼亞州費城的天普大學比斯利法學院獲得法學博士（JD）學位；在 Robert H. McKinney 法學院獲得以優異成績（summa cum laude）獲得法學碩士（LL.M.）學位；在德克薩斯州登頓的北德克薩斯大學獲得政治學碩士（MA）學位；以及在賓夕法尼亞州埃丁堡的埃丁堡大學獲得以優異成績（magna cum laude）獲得政治學學士（BA）學位。最近，Aka 教授於2021年6月完成了兩個研究生證書課程，其中一個是康奈爾大學的衝突解決課程。作為前美國富布賴特專家，Aka 教授專注於塞拉利昂弗里敦的選舉改革，他已經撰寫或共同撰寫了超過110篇出版物，包括九本書籍。

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