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Role and record of the OAU in African cooperation.

The Organization of African Unity was the product of a compromise between African statesmen who wanted political union of all independent African states and those who preferred functional cooperation as a building block toward the construction of an African sociopsychological community. As embodied in the Charter of the Organization of African Unity and put into operation, the inherent contradictions of the ideas, behaviors, and interests of member states, in conjunction with the dynamics of international politics, brought practically all efforts at functional cooperation to naught. In order to revamp Africa's commitment to functionalism, the Lagos Plan of Action was adopted in April 1980. But it remains to be seen how practicable it will be for Africans, relying on themselves, to achieve the goal of an African Common Market by the year 2000, as envisaged in the plan.

Das nationale Interesse Nigerias setzt sich aus innenpolitischen (u.a. wirtschaftliche Wohlfahrt der Bevölkerung) und außenpolitischen (u.a. territoriale Souveränität Nigerias und Afrikas, Frieden) Zielen zusammen. Nigerias chronische Probleme - politische Instabilität, Wirtschaftskrise, ethnische Konflikte - vermindern die Durchsetzungschancen des nationalen Interesses. (DÜI-Spe)

At independence, Nigerian leaders decided on a policy of non-alignment as the guiding principle of the country's foreign policy. In the beginning of the 1980s, Nigeria has broken out of that conservative shell and has taken over the initiative in many areas of international affairs. The papers of this collection focus on some key problem areas which are likely to occupy African statesmen in the foreseeable future. Being a policy-oriented study, the entire work is forward-looking: making projections into the future on the basis of empirical analysis of the past and present trends

Part I provides a kaleidoscopic view of the problem of economic development and foreign policy in Nigeria. In Part II, some of the operational forces - domestic and external - that have a crucial impact on Nigeria's economic development process are analysed. The central role of Nigeria's energy sector, with particular reference to oil is treated in Part III. In Part IV, the papers dwell on the part which relevant public institutions play and should play as catalytic agents in the execution of foreign policy for domestic economic development