Globalization and Politics in the Economic Community of West African States offers an engaging perspective on the understanding of globalization in the ECOWAS countries of West Africa. This book discusses the political and structural changes that were enacted by the West African leadership and people to meet the challenges of globalization and examines the extent to which these changes furthered democracy and the respect of human rights. While the book touches on institutions, it lays greater emphasis on political actors' behaviors and thoughts, thus reflecting on the post 1990 political discourse that has evolved in the ECOWAS country in the wake of globalization. A large variety of themes are covered: gender, the press, the military, elections, constitutions, religion, and ethnicity.

The book also offers an original african-centered approach to democracy in West Africa. With its optimistic and realistic tone, the book offers practical solutions that engage the individual states and the ECOWAS as a collective in the search for sustainable democracy and growth in West Africa. Chief among its suggested solutions, the book reasserts the values of socialism, the importance of the feminism and political education, the promotion of Pan West Africanism through the restructuration and reorientation of the Economic Community Monitoring Force, and the inevitabile coalition of four major countries, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, and Cote d'Ivoire.

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