尼日利亚边境证券化与国家政策政治，2014-2017

IF 0.8 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Insight on Africa Pub Date : 2018-11-22 DOI:10.1177/0975087818805887

O. Faleye

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摘要

本文考察了2014年至2017年尼日利亚国家边界证券化程度提高的公共政策政治。虽然这项规定在纸面上似乎是为了阻止跨境犯罪、资本外流和维持有利的国际收支，但西非现有的边境文献却恰恰相反。西非的跨界动态有什么新变化？尼日利亚政府的边境政策是什么？在回答这些问题时，这项研究为重新评估西非边境地区理论和政策之间的差距提供了一个模板。该方法是基于对口头采访、政府贸易记录、报纸报道和现存文献的批判性分析的比较方法。这篇文章为从证券化和新继承制的角度重新思考西非治理与发展之间的关系提供了一个平台。它得出的结论是，尼日利亚有效的边境管理被误导和功能失调的以精英为中心的法规所震惊，这些法规缺乏当地的现实。

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Border Securitisation and Politics of State Policy in Nigeria, 2014–2017

This article examines the politics of public policies characterised by increased securitisation of Nigeria’s national boundary from 2014 to 2017. While the regulation appears on paper to discourage transborder crime, capital outflow and sustain a favourable balance of payment, the existing armoury of West African border literature argues otherwise. What is new in the transborder dynamics of West Africa? What informs government’s border policies in Nigeria? In answering these questions, this study provides a template for a reassessment of the gap between borderlands theory and policy in West Africa. The approach is comparative based on the critical analysis of oral interviews, government trade records, newspaper reports and the extant literature. The article provides a platform for rethinking of the nexus between governance and development in West Africa from the securitisation and neo-patrimonial perspectives. It concludes that effective border management in Nigeria is set aback by misguided and dysfunctional elitist-centred regulations that are devoid of the realities on the ground.

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期刊介绍： nsight on Africa is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering contemporary African affairs and issues of policy relevance. It focuses on, though not confined to, foreign policies and developmental issues of African countries. The journal specially encourages article submission on issues related to emerging powers in Africa, BRICS in Africa and Afro-Asian relations. The journal is owned by African Studies Association of India (ASA India) located at Centre for African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and its publication is managed by Policy Research Institute of African Studies Association (PRIASA) based in New Delhi.