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Linkage Theory: The Role Of Corruption In Nigeria

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The resulting matrix of 24 actor sub-categories × 6 environment sub-categories, yields 144 areas in which national-international linkages can be formed (Table 1.2).
Relating the Linkage Theory to the Present Study
Rosenau’s linkage theory helps us to analyze corruption and its impacts as recurrent sequences of behavior that originates from the Nigerian polity and is reacted to in the international environment. Corruption emanating from the Nigerian polity is termed “policy output,” which either culminates or is sustained by the international system as “environmental input.” Similarly, “environmental output” are those sequences of behavior that start in the external environment in reaction to corruption, which either terminates in or is sustained …show more content…

As our undertaking of a historical perspective of the interaction between corruption and Nigerian foreign policy in Chapter Three indicates, the phenomenon of corruption in the Nigerian polity has been traced to the colonial public service between 1945 and 1960, and has pervaded virtually every administration both civilian and military in the post-independence era (Falola: 1998). Similarly, the international system has consistently reacted to corruption in Nigeria through such measures as restrictions in foreign direct investment/divestment from the country and isolation/relegation of Nigeria to pariah status, among others.
The linkage matrix provides a template for analyzing the resultant interaction between corruption and foreign policy based on multiple categories of the Nigerian polity (executive, legislative, military, bureaucracy, political parties, elections, etc.) and the reaction to it from different categories of the environment or international system such as the formation of multilateral anticorruption conventions at the respective regional (ECOWAS Protocol on the Fight against Corruption/ AU Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption) and global (United Nations Convention against Corruption) …show more content…

National image dwells in the psychological realm, but is nevertheless a vital component of national power along with other more tangible components such as industrial or military capability (Ogwu: 2005). While Nigeria has consistently projected a “leadership” image through its Afro-centrist foreign policy, the country has been more apt, especially in recent times, to be perceived as “a nation of scammers’ because of its global image and reputation for corruption thus further underscoring Rosenau’s linkage theory (Jega:

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