The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in ECOWAS

1. Front Matter

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2. African Political Economy and Foreign Policy in the 1990s: Towards a Revisionist Framework for ECOWAS States

   • Timothy M. Shaw, Julius Emeka Okolo

   Pages 1-16

3. Cape Verde

   • Craig N. Murphy

   Pages 17-31

4. Ghana

   • Baffour Agyeman-Duah, Cyril K. Daddieh

   Pages 32-46

5. Guinea

   • Jennifer Ann Clapp

   Pages 47-65

6. Liberia

   • Christopher Clapham

   Pages 66-85

7. Mauritania

   • Gilbert K. Bluwey

   Pages 86-102

8. Niger

   • Robert B. Charlick

   Pages 103-124

9. Nigeria

   • Julius Emeka Okolo, Stephen Wright

   Pages 125-146

10. Senegal

    • Geeta Chowdhry, Mark Beeman

    Pages 147-172

11. Togo

    • Phoebe Kornfeld

    Pages 173-186

12. ECOWAS in Comparative Perspective

    • Clement Emenike Adibe

    Pages 187-217

13. ECOMOG in Comparative Perspective

    • E. John Inegbedion

    Pages 218-244

14. The Political Economy of African Foreign Policies: Marginality and Dependency, Realism and Choice

    • Jon Kraus

    Pages 245-283

15. Back Matter

    Pages 285-289

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Both political economy and foreign policy have been transformed in the sixteen states of West Africa at the start of the 1990s because of interrelated external factors (end of the Cold War and start of a New International Division of Labour) and internal factors (national structural adjustment programmes). Sixteen leading analysts of new regional relations, of both cooperation and conflict, offer original revisionist insights into ECOWAS and ECOMOG, debt and democracy, reform and resistance. The mixture of case studies and comparative analyses constitutes a comprehensive overview of West African actors, issues, structures, perspectives and possibilities at the end of the century, with relevance for development discourses and directions in other peripheral regions. Together these offer timely redefinitions and reconceptualisations of central notions like civil society, diplomacy, foreign policy, peacekeeping, security, and self-reliance for political economies and cultures throughout the South.

• economy
• foreign policy
• political economy

• Dalhousie University, Canada

  Timothy M. Shaw

• Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Nigeria

  Julius Emeka Okolo

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