NATIONAL INTEREST: A CASE OF PHILOSOPHICAL INCONSISTENCY
Victor I. Lukpata (Ph.D)
Management Development Institute
Calabar - Nigeria.
INTRODUCTION
As a concept, national interest may offer guidance and a basis for broad consensus, but the term is so vague that everyone might label any foreign policy pronouncements with such as attractive name. It is because of this start reality and for purpose of clarity of focus that many analysts in the field of international relations would like to think of national interest simply as national security interest. In accordance with the postulation of Walter Lippman, National Security denotes that "a nation is secured to
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