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niianews Newsletter of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs Volume 1 No. 1 January - March, 2005 In this issue: Headline News - PAC Foreign Policy Retreat - Conferment of OFR on the Director-General - Foreword from the DG - Appointments Research Activities - Roundtables, Conferences and Seminars - Ambassadors Forum - On going Book Projects NIIA Publications L-R.. Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Gen. Ike Nwachukwu (rtd); President Olusegun - List of Current Publications Obasanjo and Professor U. Joy Ogwu (OFR) during the Official opening of the NIIA Exhibition at the PAC Foreign Policy Retreat in Abuja NIIA Library: The Power House of the Institute PAC Foreign Policy Retreat NIIA & the Environment he Presidential Advisory Council • Nigeria's national interests in the light T(PAC) on International Relations of of global changes Upcoming Events the Federal Republic of Nigeria organ- ised a retreat on Nigeria's Foreign Policy • Defence and Foreign Policy at the Banquet Hall of the State House Professor Ogwu Honoured in Abuja from the 26th to the 28th of • Terrorism and Global Security with Officer of the Order of October 2004. • The Foreign Policy implications of the Federal Republic (OFR) The purpose of the retreat was three- fold. First, to take an objective stock of Nigeria's oil and gas rofessor U. Joy Ogwu, Director-Gen the foreign policy successes of the cur- Peral of NIIA was conferred with the rent civilian administration since May 29, • Nigeria's Multilateral Diplomacy: UNO, national honour of Officer of the Order 1999. Second, to review the foreign WTO, World Bank, IMF and the Com of the Federal Republic (OFR). She was policy challenges facing Nigeria globally monwealth among 48 very eminent Nigerians con- and regionally, including the Gulf of ferred with that class of national hon- Guinea, and map out the future direc- • African Union and NEPAD our in October 2004. The honour is in tions of Nigeria's foreign policy in line recognition of hard work, ingenuity, self- with Nigeria's national and strategic in- • Current Economic Reform and less service and above all her invalu- terests. And, third, to identify the insti- Foreign Policy able contribution tutions and structures that would pro- to the Nation. A vide effective platforms for the realisa- • Nigeria and her neighbours member of the 8- tion of Nigeria's foreign policy objectives man Makarfi Com- and the advancement of Nigeria's na- • Cultural Exchanges and Sports as mittee, she was tional interests. instruments for Foreign Policy also recently ap- Issues discussed include: pointed member • The African diaspora question and of the on going • The costs and dividends of Foreign human capital abroad National Political Policy Reform Confer- • The role of media in Nigeria's ence. • The impact of domestic environment Foreign Policy. Professor U. Joy Ogwu (OFR) on foreign Policy 1 RESEARCH Foreword from the Activities About niianews Director-General Conferences, Seminars, Roundtables, Lectures: he Nigerian Institute of Interna The Institute in collaboration with the Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) tional Affairs was established in PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: T hosted a public lecture on "Nurturing THE REAL STRATEGIC 1961, modeled after Chatham House Rennaisance in Nigeria" on 21st March, CHALLENGE London, with the aim of providing a 2005. The distinguished Speaker was nursery of ideas on what direction Professor Richard Joseph. The lecture Over four decades ago, a group of Nigeria should take in international attracted a distinguished audience from the distinguished Nigerian statesmen from universities, the corporate world, the civil affairs. academia, law, government and society groups, the media and members business began to chart a course for Since inception, the Institute has of the public. been organising Conferences, an institute dedicated to research and teaching. Their mission was to use this Rountables and Lectures. These are “Good Governance for Nigeria”. A institute to promote the scientific study lecture on the above subject was delivered aimed at addressing current foreign of international relations especially as under the auspices of both the PAS, US policy issues and anticipating oth- they affect Nigeria’s national interests. Embassy and the NIIA by Larry Diamond, ers still on the horizon. The Nigerian Institute of International a well-known scholar of Nigerian politics Affairs, NIIA, which was subsequently and Professor of Sociology at Stanford The NIIA also disseminates informa- established in 1961, was the outcome University, United States of America, on tion to the Nigerian public and the of these efforts. world in a variety of ways, one of February 22,2005. As would be expected from Larry’s antecedents, the lecture which is through the newsletter - Over the years, the Research Fellows continued the advocacy of enabling political of NIIA have pursued painstaking niianews. space for democratic principles and the research and analysis of issues ranging harnessing of democratic dividends in the from economics to politics, from The niianews is published by the Nigerian polity. foreign policy to strategic studies. NIIA Publications Committee and On February 11, 2005, a Roundtable to has the following objectives: However, in the modern age of review the report of the UN “High Level electronic communications and - to report and make visible the Panel on Threats, Challenges and globalization, developing economies activities of the Institute to the Change”, was organized by the Research encounter increased budgetary and Department. The central issues discussed public financial difficulties. The result of this included disarmament, collective security, is that their public sectors are - to inform the public of upcoming intra and inter-state conflict, poverty/ invariably unable to fund and sustain events disease/environment, terrorism, effective research into various areas transnational crimes, reforms of the of national concern. It is, therefore, - to promote the scholarly research Security Council, peace-building and imperative that developing economies publications of the Institute. peace-keeping capability, economic and should begin to seek and find ways of social council. We hope you find this newsletter in- funding research efforts that are critical to development. formative and educative. “The African Union and the Future of the African Continent”. The African The New Partnership for Africa's Union and the future of the African NIIA Address: Development, NEPAD, has attempted continent was the subject of a conference to solve this problem by initiating 13/15 Kofo Abayomi Street, on January 13, 2005 at the Institute. strategies for public/private sector Victoria Island, Ambassador Lawrence Agubuzu, former partnerships. And it is in the spirit of Interim Commissioner of the AU, delivered G.P.O. Box 1727, Marina, Lagos. this NEPAD initiative that the NIIA the keynote address. It emphasized the presents this strategic challenge to the need for harmonization of policies and Telephone: 234-1-2615606-7, Nigerian corporate world. standards in political, economic and social Fax: 234-1-2611360 realms, through a process of relinquishing The NIIA has already taken the first some sovereignty by African states as part tentative steps forward in seeking part- Email Address: of the price for continental goal of unity nership with the Nigerian corporate [email protected]; and transformation. world. The responses from Fidelity Bank Plc, Nigerian Breweries Plc, Emerald Website: www.niianet.org NIIA Founders Day Lecture, December Energy Resources Ltd, Zinox Comput- 13, 2004. On the occasion of the Founders ers, Belloxi Company and Okhai Day of the Nigerian Institute of Akhigbe & Company (Legal Practition- International Affairs, a public lecture Newsletter Committee ers) point to the consolidation of an idea entitiled “The ECOWAS Agenda In the whose time has come. Chairman: Tonie Nwume 21st Century: Promoting Good Governance, Peace and Stability, Secretary: James Osoata Sustainable Development” was Editorial Team: Professor Ogwu Re-appointed delivered by Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, Member of the UN Secreatry- Executive Secretary (ECOWAS). His lecture G. Dinneya General's Advisory Board on reiterated the inevitability of the culture of peace, tolerance and sound democratic C. Onoh Disarmament Matters. practices as conditions for good governance, sustainable economic growth Ejide Ukelonu rofessor U. Joy Ogwu, Director-Gen Peral (NIIA) who has been a member and prosperity in the sub-region. Babatunde Emmanuel of the United Nations Secretary-Gener- al’s Advisory Board on Disarmament NIIA in collaboration with Frederich Ebert Matters for the past two years, has been Foundation organised a Roundtable on re-appointed to serve for another one Gender Perspectives to the New year. Partnership for Africa's Development. The aim was to examine 2 niianews - Newsletter of the NIIA RESEARCH NIIA LIBRARY: THE POWER HOUSE OF THE Activities INSTITUTE Conferences, Seminars, Roundtables, Lectures: whether the NEPAD document was he NIIA has been described as a those who require this service. gender-sensitive, and articulate Tnational treasure, the nations think- recommendations that will enhance its tank on foreign affairs, with research On the ground floor is the reading proper implementation in a way to as its central focus. At the heart of the room with the library's collection of ensure that women are not left out. Institute is it’s Library, a research, reference materials made up