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<em>Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges</em>

Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges

Book, Lynne Rienner Publishers

Editor: Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

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Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Intrastate Conflict Program

 

"Provides a rich, timely, and indispensable understanding of the political and economic systems in Nigeria today."
—Princeton N. Lyman, Council on Foreign Relations

Contents

  • Troubled Nigeria: Great Opportunities, Tough Challenges—R.I. Rotberg.
  • Unity with Diversity: Toward Democratic Federalism—J.N. Paden.
  • Unity or Regionalism: The Nationalities Question—R.L. Sklar.
  • Democratizing Nigeria's Federal Experiment—R.T. Suberu.
  • Reordering Nigerian Federalism: Making It More Confederal—I.E. Sagay.
  • Getting the Politics Right: Governance and Economic Failure in Nigeria—P.M. Lewis.
  • Nigeria as an Economic Powerhouse: Can It Be Achieved?—P. Utomi.
  • The 2003 Elections: Hardly Credible, But Acceptable—D. Kew.
  • Principal Human Rights Challenges—B. Manby.
  • HIV/AIDS in Nigeria: The Challenges of a National Epidemic—D.J. Smith.
  • The Roots of Sectarian Violence and its Cure—W. Reno.
  • Needed: Better Leadership—M.M. Tukur.

 

For more information about this publication please contact the ICP Program Coordinator at 617-496-9812.

For Academic Citation:

Rotberg, Robert I., John Paden, Richard Sklar, Rotimi Suberu, Itse Sagay, Peter Lewis, Patrick Utomi, Darren Kew, Bronwen Manby, Daniel Smith, William Reno, and Mahmud Tukur, Rotberg, Robert I., ed. Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004.

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