INQ 300 Headline Literature Spring 2018: Nigeria

This collection of pro versus con essays introduces readers to a variety of current issues related to Nigeria. The articles included cover topics like the effectiveness of Nigeria's leadership, the best ways for Nigeria to address violent conflicts, the seriousness of the corruption problem in Nigeria, and the current challenges facing Nigeria, from schools to infrastructure. Essay sources include the Anglican Communion, Adewale T. Akand, Dafe Ononjovwo, Ebrima Sillah, and John Campbell.

Different countries incorporate and interpret international law in different ways. This book provides a systematic analysis of the domestic constitutional regime of over two dozen countries, setting out the status accorded to international law in those countries and its normative weight, aswell as problems relating to its implementation.This country-by-country comparison allows the book to examine how the international legal order and domestic legal systems interact and influence each other. Through a series of chapters on the role of international law in 27 countries throughout the world, it shows a growing tendency towardsgreater democratic participation in treaty-making coupled with a significant utilization of informal agreements that by-pass such participation, as well as a role for non-binding normative instruments as persuasive authority in domestic judicial decision-making. The chapters suggest a strongerattachment to international law in legal systems that have survived a period of repression, resulting in many cases in a higher normative status for international human rights instruments in those states. The impact of the European Union on the constitutional order of its member states is alsoexamined.

In Diversity and Unity in Federal Countries, leading scholars and practitioners analyse the current political, socio-economic, spatial, and cultural diversity in the countries under consideration before delving into the role that social, historical, and political factors have had in shaping the balance of diversity and unity. The authors assess the value placed on diversity by examining whether present institutional arrangements and public policies restrict or enhance diversity and address the future challenges of balancing diversity and unity in an increasingly populated and mobile world.