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- Title
Gambia's Defensive Foreign Policy towards the Commonwealth of Nations under Yahyah Jammeh (1994-2017).
- Authors
Amusan, Lere
- Abstract
The end of the cold war in the 1990s raised questions about the reality of colonial-inspired international regimes. This was concretised through globalisation of a different nature. The kernel of this paper is to look into The Gambia's withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Nations (CoN) in 2013, before re-joining on 8 February 2018. Can one say that it is a foreign policy in the right direction or an attempt to cover the government's negative human rights records as documented by various human rights organisations? This paper adopts content analysis of secondary sources of data. The conclusion of this paper is that the CoN, spearheaded by the United Kingdom (UK), should embark more on cultural diplomacy to make the international regime an appealing institution to its members with special focus on economic development in developing states.
- Subjects
GAMBIAN politics &; government; INTERNATIONAL relations; INTERNATIONAL trade; HUMAN rights; DIPLOMACY
- Publication
Journal of African Foreign Affairs, 2018, Vol 5, Issue 2, p23
- ISSN
2056-564X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31920/2056-5658/2018/v5n2a2