The Post Cold War External Environment and Nigeria Foreign Policy

This paper examines some important post Cold War changes in the external environment that have contributed to Nigeria’s foreign policy. The of policy is totality extraneous factors influence and shape a country’s international system was remarkably altered by historic end war. facilitated made relations more complex challenging. Globalisation, pressures for democratisation respect human rights; commitments bilateral multilateral agreements were identified as sources on These developments challenged tremendously dynamics Neo-liberal theory employed framework analysis. Data sourced from secondary sources: books, journals, newspapers, magazines Internet.