Pyrex Journals Politics of Foreign Policy on National Security: an Analysis of Nigeria -United States Relations over Boko Haram Insurgency

A basic assumption emitted by foreign policy experts gives the impression that each nation engages in foreign policy to protect its national interest. In view of this, each nation guides its interest jealously while prying on others. Therefore, this work addresses itself to the implication of the United States' sudden interest on security assistance to Nigeria over the dreaded challenge of Boko Haram in view of the fact that such assistance had earlier been denied. The paper points out that, although the incessant terrorist acts in Nigeria reveal sub-optimal capacity on the part of the Nigerian state for counter terrorism, a foreign policy of coordinated military operation of neighboring countries, is more proactive and more protective security conscious than the cosmetic outcomes which US assistance may bring. The paper accentuates the need for the government of the Nigerian State to embrace the development of technology, and argues that the role of the US should be properly defined and situated possibly on procurement of weapons and intelligence, if it must intervene