GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL POLICY MAKING IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES

Abstract

This paper studies “Globalization and National Policy Making in Third  World Countries”. It evaluated the effects of globalization on policy and policy-making in third world countries. Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to global events and actions and have come to depend heavily on the international community for financial and technical assistance. Consequently, National Policies are interlocked with global issues, because poor countries generally have fragile and weak political systems of accountability. With few autonomous institutions and little power to offset that exercised by the central government, external agencies being potentially key political players, therefore exert considerable influence. The aim of this paper therefore is to study globalization and itsimpacts on the national policy agenda and policy making in third world countries. Data for this study was generated through secondary source of data. The researcher found out 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 Alavi (1972). The paper recommends that one possible way out of the menace of globalization and its devastating effects is the subordination of external relations to the logic of internal development. Through this, African revolutionary and activist classes could be actively engaged in building alternative structure of power for organizing production based on new values of humanity and care for the environment.