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

1.4 Research objectives:

To understand the behavioural meaning of government and the state in international system why they behave in the way they do and what motivate them to behave in the way they do relate with other states and non state actors, and how can it be best understood and explained and analysed. More to understand the survival of the state system management with the consequences of economic interdependence of how they succeed or fail to manage their conflicts and what determines whether they cooperate or not to achieve common objectives.

To build a hand on geopolitical intelligence and add to knowledge, that provide individuals, communities, institutional investors, and governments with the current picture of security in the Gulf of Guinea as a hot spot and emerging market, created by the political forces and regulatory decisions of international organisations, foreign governments and their consensus, that is how the international politics interplays and influence the local economy to understand the social world. That is tying with the argument that the problem of Africa is the idea that Europe and its allies exist a problem for Africa.

There has been a shift of the source of power in IR from military to market and now to resources. The security of the Gulf of Guinea provides Africa with an opportunity for integration with free movement of good and persons, communities and states within the sub region as it regroups countries of three regional groupings of ECOWAS, CEMAC, SADC for a common identity, market, money, and government within Africa, but also reconnecting Africa to the world system with their oneness and common ideology (the African consensus) in presenting their demands for example vying for a permanent seat at the security council at the UN.

To underpin Africa’s vulnerability as the world soft under belly to the culture of violence of global war on terror, where the elephants are fighting it is the grass that suffers. Learn from history and past experience and adopt an African geo strategy, mending hardships, culture of violence and cultural diversity into a culture of non violence and cultural diversity in unity, and sell as information. Fundamental to empower the dismember and suffering communities to achieve sustainable livelihood characteristics of human dignity and respect.

In order to be able to change the world from all its turbulence and inequalities, we must first with ambition, understand the hierarchy of orders inherent in the world we live in, gain knowledge with which to construct a better world.