Political Culture, Change, and Security Policy in Nigeria
Demonstrating how political culture facilitates or distorts political preferences and political outcomes, this book explores how the historical development of social conditions and the current social structures shape understandings and constrain individual and collective actions within the Nigerian political system. Political Culture, Change, and Security Policy in Nigeria also examines the extent to which specific norms and socialization processes within the political and civic culture abet corruption or the proclivity to engage in corrupt practices and how they help reinforce political attitudes and civic norms that have the potential to undermine the effectiveness of government. It also delineates specific doctrinal models and strategic framework essential to the development and implementation of Nigerias national security policy, as well as innovative approaches to national development planning.
Professor Kalu N. Kalu offers an exhaustive study that integrates several quantitative models in addressing a series of theoretical and empirical questions that inform historical and contemporary issues of the Nigerian project. The general premise is that it is not enough to simply highlight the problems of the state and address the what question, we must also address the why and how questions that drive political change, policy preferences, and competing political outcomes.
Kalu N. Kalu is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science & National Security Policy at Auburn University Montgomery, USA, and Docent Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland.
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Names: Kalu, Kalu Ndukwe, author.
Title: Political culture, change, and security policy in Nigeria/Kalu N. Kalu.
Other titles: Routledge Contemporary Africa Series ; 4.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa Series ; 4
Identifiers: LCCN 2017056578 | ISBN 9781138475977 (hardback) | ISBN 9781351065825 (ebook) | ISBN 9781351065795 (mobipocket)
Subjects: LCSH: Political cultureNigeria. | Political corruptionNigeria. | NigeriaPolitics and government1960 | NigeriaSocial conditions. | National securityNigeria.
Classification: LCC JQ3090. K35 2018 | DDC 320.9669dc23
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Kalu Ndukwe Kalu is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and National Security Policy at Auburn University Montgomery, USA; Docent Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland; and a Fulbright Scholar. He has been a Research Affiliate at The Whitney and Betty Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies (Yale University); FDD Academic Fellow, on Counterterrorism and Intelligence (Israel); and also a Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos. He is also a recipient of two Certificates in Joint Strategic Leadership (2010), and National Security Decision Making (2011) from the United States Air War College (Air University, MAFB). Over the years, he has been the coordinator at AUM of the Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower National Security Series: College Program an outreach program of the U. S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA.
Professor Kalu is widely published with articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, and has a combined production of over 65 scholarly works cumulatively in terms of publications in journals, books, edited volumes, and in national and international conference presentations. His research emphasis is in the areas of comparative institutions and development, organizational theory and change, citizenship and administrative theory, technology-leadership interface, technology and culture, complex adaptive systems, national security and intelligence policy, and health care politics and policies. He has been invited and participated in several international learned conferences and fellowships in several countries around the world including Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, China, Singapore, and India. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of Public Administration Review, the premier journal in the field.
He is the author of several books including State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008); Citizenship: A Reality far From Ideal, co-edited with Nada Kakabadse and Andrew Kakabadse (Palgrave Macmillan 2009); Technology, Culture, and Public Policy: Critical Lessons From Finland (Routledge 2017); and Citizenship: Identity, Institutions, and the Postmodern Challenge (Routledge 2017).
The course of Nigerian statehood is at a crossroad not necessarily with respect to the current economic and political situation in the country, but in terms of the lack of definitiveness regarding the objective of statehood and the direction the government wishes to pursue that objective. There is therefore a sense among the civic polity, that the country exists today but tomorrow seems to be already immersed in uncharted waters. In my earlier book titled State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism, I sought to make the case that the collusion of state institutions, the historical schisms that shaped the character of political discourse during the countrys formative years, and the deleterious role of extra-political actors have tended to embroil the country into a
