The world view of Nigeria’s foreign policy elite.
The aim of this thesis is to apply the concept of ‘image’ to an understanding of Nigeria’s foreign policy. Professor Boulding has defined the image as "the total cognitive, affective and evaluative structure of the behaviour unit, or its internal view of itself and its universe". This imag...
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ndltd-LACETR-oai-collectionscanada.gc.ca-QMM.1153322014-02-13T04:10:01ZThe world view of Nigeria’s foreign policy elite.Akintunde, Josiah. O.Political Science.The aim of this thesis is to apply the concept of ‘image’ to an understanding of Nigeria’s foreign policy. Professor Boulding has defined the image as "the total cognitive, affective and evaluative structure of the behaviour unit, or its internal view of itself and its universe". This image is subjective by nature. Its coincidence with "objective reality" adds nothing to its value for purposes of analysis. The image of a behaviour unit like the nation-state is really a complex of the images of the individuals who compromise the nation.McGill UniversitySteinberg, B. (Supervisor)1964Electronic Thesis or Dissertationapplication/pdfenalephsysno: NNNNNNNNNTheses scanned by McGill Library.All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.Master of Arts. (Department of Political Science.) http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115332 |
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The aim of this thesis is to apply the concept of ‘image’ to an understanding of Nigeria’s foreign policy. Professor Boulding has defined the image as "the total cognitive, affective and evaluative structure of the behaviour unit, or its internal view of itself and its universe". This image is subjective by nature. Its coincidence with "objective reality" adds nothing to its value for purposes of analysis. The image of a behaviour unit like the nation-state is really a complex of the images of the individuals who compromise the nation. |
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