Comparative Foreign Policy Of The Republics Of Benin And Niger As Influenced By France And Nigeria

ABSTRACT

The comparative study of the foreign policy of Republics of Benin and Niger reveals a Franco-Nigerian tussle over who dominates the external behaviour of the two Francophone States. The French Republic claims an almost absolute right to determine the direction of the foreign policy of these two states with imperialistic machinery as her weapons. Nigeria the other hand. Since 1970 has been seeking to influence the foreign policy of Benin and Niger through a lot of means including aid, economic, diplomatic, cultural, historical and on military ties. France in various ways has resented the The Nigerian incursion into a French sphere of influence'. Marxism-Leninism declaration of Benin has not relaxed the French imperialistic hold on the country. The activities of the Communist world in the two Francophone states have best been nominal.