This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. The book explains how foreign intervention influences the course of civil wars. It focuses on how foreign resources affect the military power of the recipient belligerent. The book analyses how changes in the balance of capabilities influence the form of warfare that characterises a civil war. It introduces the idea that foreign resources possess both a gross and interactive value. The book explores how changes in one, or more, belligerent's military power will affect the character of the warfare in civil war. It presents evidence that foreign intervention in the Angolan and Afghan civil wars had a significant impact on the contending strategies of the belligerents in those conflicts. Foreign intervention in the Angolan and Afghan civil wars reinforces the notion that foreign resources will have an inconsistent impact on …

Chapter 10 recapitulates aspects of the overarching theme of this book such as state and citizenship, civic political culture and value change, the role of political structures, basic tools for national development planning, and the evolving nexus between emerging demographic and population trends and urbanization. Utilizing historical and contemporary data on national population growth and forecasts, the chapter illuminates the more enduring challenges Nigeria would have to deal with as it engages its national development planning for the years ahead. It also elucidates the problem of a growing but unemployed youth population, the role of government in macroeconomic adjustments, and the lack of effective residential ‘rent control’ mechanism – as the major cause of urban decay and degeneration that is witnessed in many of the major cities. The chapter ends by providing a critical assessment of the …

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