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- ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND THE STATE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA NATURAL RESOURCES, INSECURITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. pp. 8-25
- ECOWAS PROTOCOL ON FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS AND GOODS: IMPLICATIONS FOR NIGERIA’S FOREIGN POLICY, SECURITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. pp. 26-39
- STATE FAILURE, TERRORISM AND INSURGENCY IN THE WEST AFRICAN SAHEL. pp. 40-47
- THE ROLES OF HISTORY EDUCATION IN STRENGTHENING DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA: INSIGHTS FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD. pp.48-58
- SYRIAN CRISIS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY. pp. 59-66
- NIGERIA-NIGER RELATIONS: BETWEEN CORDIALITY AND BRINKMANSHIP, 2015-2023. pp. 67-80
- HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION CONVENTIONS AGAINST AERIAL TERRORISM DURING THE COLD WAR ERA. pp. 81-90
- DIGITAL MILITIAS AND THE WEAPONIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY IN WEST AFRICA AND BEYOND. pp. 91-98
- CROSS-BORDER DYNAMICS AND TERRITORIAL RECONFIGURATION IN WEST AFRICA. pp. 99-109
- REGIMES, RADICAL INTERNATIONALISM, AND THE INTERNATIONAL LETHAL ORDER. pp. 110-125
Abstract: The international regimes of standard practices are crucial for managing international relations, and had become part of the international legal order. Their development to guide interstate relations gained prominence as soft power ever after a forward-looking diplomatic initiative had de-emphasised the use of war by states (the outlawry of war by Pact of Paris) in righting wrongs incurred from such interactions. Notably, since their deployment about seven decades ago, their observance have helped to keep humanity away from another total war. However, new states (Third World) in world politics have groused about the regimes and order. They alleged that the regimes restricted (delayed) Third World economies, and predisposed them to poverty and stagnation, because they were negotiated in their absence, and, hence, were largely unrepresentative of their national interests. Hence, also, they jointly demanded regimes-change and the renegotiation of a fair and equitable international order. However, they were rebuffed by the other party. They were later joined in the agitation by the radical internationalist and New Right Movements. This study, relying on secondary data sources, and utilising the historical method and content analysis, dissected the issues about international regimes and order, their applications, modus operandi and impact, vis-à-vis the advanced economies and the Third World. The study revealed that by nature and application, the regimes have had more enriching effects on the West than they have on the Third World. It also confirmed that this lopsided impact had driven some members of the Third World into adopting reactionary foreign policy. While a few states of the Third World had deliberately flouted the regimes to force change, others had desperately deployed nonconventional violence against the international system. The study concluded that the blunt adamance of the First World Realms (advanced economies) to yield have greatly endangered the global system vide transnational terrorism, plunging thereby the once thriving international legal order into a lethal order.
Keywords: International Regimes, Regime Change, Regime Theory, International Peace and Security