International Organizations and State Sovereignty: Implications for Public Policy Making and Implementation in Nigeria

Abstract

Globalization and information technology have gradually eroded the Westphalia nation-state system and transformed the state-centric approach to politics and policy across the world. State actors in public policy making and implementation are being over-shadowed by multiple non-state actors. States are no more at liberty to decide their internal and domestic policies as it interests them due to the impact of international surveillance as well as actors. The implications these portend for domestic policy process begs for attention. From a complex dependency theory perspective, this paper x-rays the contributions of international organizations to domestic policy processes in Nigeria and argues that this situation brings with it a dualism in which good and bad abound. Thus, this work posits that, developing economies like Nigeria being wary of this, must position themselves to reap the benefits as well as guard against the negative implications embedded in this current situation.