Interrogating Nigeria's International Role Conceptions in an Age of Global Climate Change
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Nigeria's foreign policy from independence has been proactively African. This implies that
Nigeria imposes on itself the burden of committing its resources to salvaging Africa socioeconomically
and politically. While this has come under vigorous scrutiny and sharp
criticisms because of its huge cost for national development; Nigeria's African and
international roles have tended to be a functionaNst one, which has not really changed and
been reviewed to meet new global and African challenges. In the face· of a global climate
change with Africa at the receiving end, what would be Nigeria's roles? The traditional
roles of Nigeria have been in the area of economic and financial help and combating of
regional security issues. However, the current climate 'war' appears io be more destructive
than the usual conflict, hunger and diseases: The paper scrutinizes. Nigeria's national
environmental policy and the foreign policy role conceptions, to see the content and context
of Nigeria's panacea and roles in the struggle to check global warming. Using the National
Role Conception methodological, theoretical and conceptual approaches, the paper
examines the nation's own peculiar climate problems (from the Delta to Lagos and the
Savanmih) and how it takes the local context to the global theater.
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JA Political science (General)