Abstract:
This paper studies globalization and national policy making among the least developed countries. It evaluated the impacts of globalization on policy and policy-making in third world countries. Third World countries are usually susceptible to global events, issues, actions and have come to rely profoundly on the global community for aids and technical support. Accordingly, national policies are intertwined with international issues. It has been argued that because Third World countries largely have frail and feeble systems of accountability, with scanty independent institutions and little control to counterbalance any influence exerted by the central government, foreign institutions and agencies are likely the key political players, capable of wielding considerable influence. On this basis, the purpose of this paper is to study globalization in general and its effects on the national policy regime and policy making in the Third World countries. The paper studied some global issues that have some significant roles in national policy-making such as environment, poverty, migration and population growth, aids, drugs, trade and industry, privatization and terrorism. Data generation for this study was done through secondary sources. The researcher discovered that the making of national policy in different African states is heavily influenced by the globalization process. The theoretical framework used was the theory of Post-Colonial State developed by Hamza Alavi. The paper recommends that one possible way out of the menace of globalization and its devastating effects is the subordination of exterior relations to the logic of domestic development. |
