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International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Critical turn', ABU Zaria, Barry Buzan, Hans Morgenthau, History, IAS-UI, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Neorealism, NUC, OAU Ile-Ife, Political Science, Richard Ashley, TETFundNo CommentsViews:
International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

By Adagbo ONOJA Introduction It cannot be out of place to worry about the quality and overarching direction of undergraduate and even graduate training in the discipline of International Rel... Read more

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Our Position – NPSA

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: 'Roofoo', Alienation, Diarchy, Ibadan School of Political Science, NPSA, Prof Larry Diamond, Richard AshleyNo CommentsViews:
Our Position - NPSA

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The NPSA is a principled Association that guides jealously its guardian role in the society. Partly because of  not being accused of partisanship, we maintain a digni... Read more

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Why NPSA Should Not Tremble Before Its Powers

Posted By: adminon: November 17, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: 'Roofoo', Alienation, Ibadan School of Political Science, NPSA, Richard AshleyNo CommentsViews:
Why NPSA Should Not Tremble Before Its Powers

By Adagbo Onoja In every crisis situation, there is a big role for critics. But there is an even bigger role for those who come up with plausible ways out of the crisis. Coming up with plaus... Read more

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Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Achebe, Bala Usman, Decoloniality, IPPSS, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Postcolonial theory, Richard Ashley, Stanley Hoffmann, ‘Dissident scholars’No CommentsViews:
Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

When Intervention opened this series upon discovering that the late Bala Usman has a street named after him in Abuja, the reason given for the significance for that is that Abuja stands as a... Read more

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In Search of Nigeria’s Share of Dissident Scholars

Posted By: adminon: December 08, 2019In: FlashbackTags: 'Perestroika Movement', Enlightenment, Hegemony, Ken Booth, Marxism, Post-positivism, Richard Ashley, Robert KeohaneNo CommentsViews:
In Search of Nigeria’s Share of Dissident Scholars

There is this famous story of the school teacher who was used to telling his students seeking a deeper meaning of the word velocity that the only way to get that is to go and stand on the tr... Read more

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