Omiunu, Ohiocheoya, Aniyie, Ifeanyichukwu Azuka (2024) Evidence of Subnational Government Sovereign Boundary Percolation in Nigeria. Regional and Federal Studies, 34 (3). pp. 293-313. ISSN 1359-7566. E-ISSN 1743-9434. (doi:10.1080/13597566.2024.2306546) (KAR id:104600)
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Abstract
This study analyses data from 1999–2019, evidencing strategies utilised by Nigerian Subnational Governments (SNGs) for promoting, facilitating, and retaining inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). These strategies are unique for several reasons, including the fact that they highlight the evidence of paradiplomacy in Nigeria, a case study that is understudied in the paradiplomacy literature. These strategies also deviate from the conventional protocols for FDI mobilisation in Nigeria. Drawing on Duchacek's conceptualisation of these strategies as a percolation of sovereign boundaries, i.e., the idea that SNGs are permeating inter-sovereign 'sieves' ordinarily designed to restrict their forays into the international plane, this article conceptually maps and empirically assesses the varied expressions and prevalence of these strategies by Nigeria's SNGs. Although these strategies are yet to be constitutionally challenged by the central government, they reveal a growing porosity of Nigeria’s sovereign boundaries and, therefore, necessitate a critical reassessment of the extant intergovernmental frameworks that govern FDI mobilisation and foreign economic relations in Nigeria.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/13597566.2024.2306546 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Foreign economic relations, Nigeria, Subnational government, Foreign Direct Investment |
Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School |
Funders: | University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56) |
Depositing User: | Ohiocheoya Omiunu |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2024 21:15 UTC |
Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2024 14:21 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/104600 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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