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

1.5.2 Method of Data Collection and Plan Framework;

The data collection technique is both qualitative and quantitative techniques of research in social science¹⁷. The empirical analysis will depend on secondary data, research studies, intelligence reports, official statistics, paper of the world bank, IMF, news, journals, previous write ups, text books from the libraries, desktop electronic and online materials, and other authentic relevant materials. The research design is a case study of a holistic qualitative and quantitative data and statistics methods of approach of the Gulf of Guinea as a region but draws examples by country specifics within the sub region in an IPE perspective and make use of comparative politics, to ensure quality and relevance in view of rivalry of hegemony and conflicts within and without the sub region, to understand, interpret and add to knowledge of the universal or ethnocentric conceptions of the unit of analysis that is the state and non state actors in IPE, politically realising their interests.

The reconnection of Africa to the world system after 9/11 attacks: war on terrorism or integration for sustainable development, is an attempt to address the case of the security of the gulf of guinea and the notion of terrorism, a relatively new and on going phenomenon in the gulf of guinea in particular and Africa in general and not too many literature has been written on it, hence limiting the scope of the study. More the region is made up of smaller state units with different interest and objectives, from language to politics and in relation with the outside world, hence it becomes complex. The lack of the usage of primary data in the study, again that the investigator spent too much time consulting documents written in other languages and at one point almost abandon the investigation and it has not been easy making up my mind to bring the project to completion, reflect some of the difficulties encountered that limits the scope of the study. I recognize the fact that I have not been able to cover everything and I am conscious of the fact that specialists will feel that I have been neglectful.

The research is divided into three main parts, the theory section, the analyses and the syntheses, and styled up of five chapters. The content of chapters serves as the summary of the project as it gives us a brief insight of what each chapter is about and the structure of the work.