Globalization and Nigeria International Image: Its Adaptability, Challenges, and Prospect

Abstract

The globalization process had increased interaction between nations and inflow of goods and services as well as aspirations and interest within the global community. It also helps to increase a nation's gross domestic products and encourage development at a broader scale. However, a state with an image crisis cannot correctly join the globalization process because it had to battles with its integrity and credibility. Thus, this research work analyzes the nexus between globalization and Nigeria international image, its adaptability, challenges, and prospect. The central question for this study is how Nigeria international image crisis impacts, on its ability to adapt to the ongoing globalization process. The structural functionalism theory was employed as our theoretical framework of analysis to argue that the nature of Nigeria political structures and corruption has produced a pattern of predictable behavior in the international system hence the image crisis. Also, the study adopts qualitative research and documentary methods of data collection and recommends that institutional structures in Nigeria should be arranged in such a way that there will be promotion of the rule of law in the system.