Nigeria is known as the "giant of Africa" because of its natural and human resources, but it remains unstable because of human rights violations. This book is an argument for the application of human rights in Nigeria’s external relations, complete with a set of human rights–sensitive strategies for achieving that application.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Starting Points
Chapter 2: Conceptual Framework
Chapter 3: Theoretical Framework
Chapter 4: Activities that Shape the Current Patterns of Politics: Historical Backdrop on Human Rights in Nigeria's External Relations
Part II: Temple of Nigeria's Human Rights Foreign Policy (Six Key Issues Relating to the Application of Human Rights in Nigeria's Foreign Policy)
Chapter 5: Reconstructing Nigeria's National Interest in a More Human Rights-Sensitive Direction
Chapter 6: Charity Begins at Home: Increased Respect for Human Rights in Nigeria
Chapter 7: Redesigning Peacekeeping to Make it More Human Rights-Compliant
Chapter 8: Reshaping Nigeria's Foreign Policy Machinery in a More Human Rights-Sensitive Direction
Chapter 9: The Need for More Symmetry Between Multilateral and Bilateral Activities in Nigeria's External Relations
Chapter 10: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Human Rights in Nigeria's External Relations
Part III: Conclusions
Chapter 11: Enacting Serious Reforms at Home and Abroad
Chapter 12: But So What? Two Objections to the Argument in this Work and Two Rebuttals to Those Objections
References
Appendix I: Biblical Passages Related to Human Rights
Appendix II: Maps