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Governance and Security in Nigeria's Fourth Republic by V. Adefemi Isumonah (Hardback)
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9781032566559
Published:
30 Oct 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
212 pages
Dimensions:
234mm
Weight:
0.453kgs
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This book explores the link between the nature of governance and various dimensions of security in Nigeria since the beginning of the fourth republic in 1999. At a time of increasing conflict in Nigeria, this book's analysis will be valuable for researchers across Political Science, History, Security Studies, Law, and African Studies.
This book explores the link between the nature of governance and various dimensions of security in Nigeria since the beginning of the fourth republic in 1999.The book begins by laying out the expectations of governance following the restoration of democratic rule. Failure to meet these expectations of governance over the subsequent twenty-five years has led to resistance of authority structures and privileged groups, who in turn, in their effort at defining their positions, employ coercion that has endangered the security of Nigeria. This book is different from some previously published books in the field because it engages Nigeria's security challenges in their abstract and concrete forms and connects governance indicators with security (or insecurity), taking a cue from key themes in state-society and intergroup relations. This book juxtaposes different governance indicators against various dimensions of security, including physical, economic, food, and so on, in order to assess whether there is a correlation between the quality of governance in Nigeria and the country's diverse security challenges.At a time of increasing conflict in Nigeria, this book's analysis will be valuable for researchers across Political Science, History, Security Studies, Law, and African Studies.
About the Author: V. Adefemi Isumonah is a Professor of Political Science. He served as Head of Department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan from 2016 to 2020. He propounded the cultural theory of nationality and citizenship in "Land Tenure, Migration, Citizenship and Communal Conflicts in Africa", Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, vol.9, no.1, Spring, pp.1-19 (2003). He is author of other numerous scholarly articles and look chapters on governance and political economy of Africa.Nathaniel Umukoro is a Professor of International Affairs, Conflict, Peace and Strategic Studies in the Department of Political Science and Dean, College of Postgraduate Studies, Western Delta University, Nigeria. He had his undergraduate education at the University of Benin and Postgraduate Studies at the University of Ibadan, both in Nigeria. During his postgraduate research, he was a fellow of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Unit of the Social Science Research Council, New York. In addition to his postgraduate studies, he received additional training in Education in Emergencies (2017), Peace Education and Transitional Justice (2015) from the Georg Eckert Institute, Germany; Development and Inequality in the Global South from Brown University, USA (2010) and Mixed-method Research Course from the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, Nairobi, Kenya, in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK (2011-2012). He has over 100 publications including 22 articles published in journals indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. Nathaniel Umukoro served as fellow of the Social Science Research Council, New York from 2013-2015, Humboldt fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany in 2022, Senior Research Fellow at Point Alpha Research Institute, Germany in 2023, Senior Fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany in 2024 and Senior Fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (IfL), Leipzig, Germany in 2025.
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