Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai

Professor Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai is the Academic Chancellor, BOSAS International Law Bureau, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria.

The Role of Military Intelligence and Diplomacy in the Era of World Terrorism: A Note to the UN Security Council Members

The world is divided amongst states with different worldviews, which are irreconcilable. China has increased its military budget. Japan has freed itself from the impositions put on its constitution after the Second World War...

2015: The Nigerian tragicomedy

The registration of a coalition of Nigerian political parties signals a dramatic turn in the politics of business as usual, of no vacancy in Aso Rock, of brutal imposition of subjective choice, rigging elections and of Supreme Court enthronement of persons...

The Power of Social Media over Man-made Gods: Mediaocracy Vs. Democracy in Turkey

The Rubicon between democracy and dictatorship is crossed unwittingly, silently and without proclamation...

Sino-American Diplomatic Rapprochement

There were scholars and policy bureaucrats who, for decades, benefited from anti-communist hysteria and in the process, hindered the positive development of Sino-American relations...

The Proposed Geneva Diplomatic Conference on Syria: Obvious Impediments

Things have changed dramatically since Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq and Russia are backing the Syrian Government. The prospects of the success of the Geneva Diplomatic Conference on Syria are remote for the following reasons...

Encounter with Chinua Achebe: A Critique of Traditional Igbo Society

Upon my return to Lagos in February, 1974, I was commissioned by the US Embassy in Lagos to interview the author of Things Fall Apart, for publication in their magazine...

The Accidental Public Servant

It is an indelible historical fact that Nigerian political development has been shaped by chance happenings, of unprepared leaders accidentally jumping onto the stage, rigging themselves into high political offices, for which they are neither academically equipped nor did they possess the requisite experience in statecraft...

Radicalism and Radicalization: The Remote and Immediate Causes

In the last one month, after the Boston Bombings by radicalized youths, the issue of radicalization has taken center stage in political discourses around the globe...

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