The Importance of Africa to The World System After 9/11 Attacks: War on Terrorism or Integration for Sustainable Development

Assumptions;

That international relations designates the relationship between states and their interactions with foreign policies no longer the only actor but also non state actors in pursuing their interests , in a more larger perspective with a political dimension that marks the characteristics phenomenon and processes of their evolution.

The assumption that the world is made up of upon the state units as actors and non state actors in relations and interactions with each other in IR and IPE and believing that all other features of the dominant model remain constant in the world with their inherent inequalities. The importance of the Gulf of Guinea to the world system will enhance the political, economic, social, regional and partly geo-strategic integration and stability of the countries of the sub region, thereby improving quality standards of living and sustainable development.

That the richness in energy resources (oil, brute, fossils, natural gas, and forests) is a source of power and to speak power in the IPE and in relations among states. That such power relation is best acquired in a supportive and joyful environment of peace and security where diverse interests are respected. This assumption underpins the belief of the beneficial effects of the relations and interactions of goods, individuals, society and their states and other state and non state actors at the local national and international levels.

The relationship existing between actors is exemplary from confrontation to cooperation with frontiers transcended by flux of migration and network of actors of a transnational scope. Mixing the national, regional and global and the laws that bind the nation lost it pertinence as delimitation of the internal and international boundary, politics and economics becomes difficult.

That there has been a paradigm shift in power relations in IR to IPE and from the states to the markets and that the states that prevail is seen as one getting both the states and market right. The politics and economics are the primary areas of focus in understanding our social world.

That globalization influences development and social change, the global economy and world order, and world economy and world order affects development and social change. Development permits a better understanding of the geopolitical, geo strategic and economic influences of the socio political forces at the local, regional and global levels.