Hill, J. N. C. (Jonathan N. C.), 1978-
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-167) and index.
- Fear of failure: negative sovereignty and the birth of state failure — The enemy within: insurgency and the failure of the Nigerian state — The emperor’s new clothes?: federalism, the decline of old loyalties and the rise of new jealousies — Fuel to the flames: oil and political violence in contemporary Nigeria — Of the people but for the people?: Nigeria and its armed forces.
- Boko Haram’s recent attacks have helped turn Nigeria into a failed state, yet so far it has avoided breaking up. But what are the forces keeping it together? And how much longer will they continue to do so? Nigeria since Independence seeks to answer these important questions by looking at the complex and contradictory roles played by the country’s federal structures, oil reserves, and the armed forces. The picture of contemporary Nigeria it paints is at once intriguing and complex, frightening and optimistic. This book focuses on both the factors fuelling the insurgencies in the Niger Delta and the North-East, which are the primary cause of country’s failure, and the main mechanisms helping to keep the country together. Enhanced by interviews with senior Nigerian policy-makers and foreign diplomats, it provides a crucial insight into the state of modern Nigeria.–Publisher description.
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