Effects of Ethnicity on the Globalization Process

In the recent years, the globalization process has been challenged worldwide by several forces the most serious of which is that of ethnicity which has found expression as patriotism, self determination and ethnic chauvinism. This paper examines the globalization process and ethnic nationalism in contemporary era to see how the forces of ethnicity have affected the globalization process. The paper finds that ethnic sentiment aims at protecting the sovereignty of the countries involved, giving their nationals a greater control over their national economies and those of other nations, and is therefore expressed by both the developed and the developing nations. The paper concludes that aggressive national posture can only be removed or reduced if the globalization process gives the people a reasonable degree of control over their development, and, if the barriers are removed against the movement of people from the developing nations to the developed.

The Role of Regional Economic and Political Groups in the Globalization Process: A Case Study of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) (1982-2002)

A regional integration by its very nature integrates its members into an economic union and acts as a bloc on matters affecting its members vis-a-vis other regional blocs and non members. Its hegemonic nature of hedging its members against all forms of exploitation and intimidation by other regional blocs and non-members and its desire to stem the tide of trade diversion, and to create and foster intra-union flow of trade, factors and investment at the exclusion of non-members and other regional blocs run contradictory to the aims and objectives of the globalization process which is the integration of the world economy through the breaking down of trade and investment barriers worldwide. Given these contradictory objectives of the regional blocs and the globalization process, this study examines the roles of the ECOWAS as an agent in the globalization process in the West African sub-region, its constraints, and solutions to the problems

Achieving National Stability and Economic Survival in Nigeria through Technical and Vocational Education

Abstract Despite the differences in the educational systems amongst the nations of the world, their aims have always remained the same -to transmit from one generation to the other, the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of the society; to prepare the citizens for future membership of the society and their active participation in its maintenance and development. Recent developments in science and technology, global economic crises, terrorism and insecurity have made the nations to lay much emphasis on the provision of technical and vocational education for their citizens to overcome these challenges. This paper examines the relevance of technical and vocational education in the development (national stability and economic survival) of a developing nation like Nigeria; the problems facing the provision of technical and vocational education in Nigeria; and what should be done to overcome these problems to make the country one of the developed nations of the world