College of Education

School of Continuing and Distance Education 2017/2018 – 2018/2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

LECTURER: (Dr. Charles Amo-Agyemang) DEPARTMENT: (Political Science Department)

(Contact Information: camo-agyemang@ug.edu.gh)

Course Information

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Course Code: POLI 446

Course Title: Ghana’s Foreign Policy

Course Credit

Three Credit(s)

Session Number & Session Title:

Insert Session Number 12 & Session Title: Ghana’s Foreign Policy under the NDC regime

Semester/Year: Semester Semester / 2018

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Course Information (contd.)

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Lecture Period(s)

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Prerequisites Insert Course Prerequisites: (if applicable)

Teaching Assistant

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Course Instructor’s Contact

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Course Instructor(s) Name

Dr. Charles Amo-Agyemang

Office Location On top of the Department of Political Department

Office Hours

Insert Office Hours: Fridays 2pm -4pm

Phone 0558202042

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Introduction/Subject or Session Overview

• the session looks at how NDC administration vigorously supported the grounds of economic integration, its commitment to continental unity in seeking a permanent peaceful resolution to the conflict in the sub region as well as Pan-African agenda

• This session seeks to analyze the major foreign policy initiatives of NDC regime with respect to economic diplomacy and African Policy. It brings into sharp focus how the foreign policy of the NDC administration sought to achieve strong bilateral, multilateral ties, and international treaty obligations.

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Session Outline

The key topics to be covered in the session are as follows:

• Topic One: NDC African Policy

• Topic Two: NDC Economic Diplomacy

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Session Learning Goals

• Be able to Critically assess the economic diplomacy of the NPP government

• Be able to evaluate the measures taken by the NPP government to establish and deepen friendly relations with other countries, especially with immediate neighbors.

• Be able to Understand the factors that influenced NPP’s relationship with neighbors

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Session Learning Objectives

• Objective One: Assess economic diplomacy of the NDC government

• Objective Two: Identify the various policies taken by both NDC government to achieve good neighborliness

• Objective Three:Critically examine some of the contemporary factors underscoring the significance of aid in the Ghana’s foreign policy orientation

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Session Learning Outcomes

• Be able to critically assess the economic diplomacy of the NDC government

• Be able to evaluate the measures taken by the NDC government to establish and deepen friendly relations with other countries, especially with immediate neighbors.

• Be able to understand the factors that influenced NDC’s relationship with neighbors

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Session Activities and Assignments

This week, complete the following tasks: • Log onto the UG Sakai LMS course site:

– http://sakai.ug.edu.gh/XXXXXXXXX

• Read Armah, Kwesi, Peace without Power: Ghana’s Foreign Policy, 1957-66, Accra: Ghana University Press, 2005. Blay-Amihere, Kabral. Between the Lion and the Elephant: Memoirs of an African Diplomat. Tema: Digibooks: 2010

• Watch the Videos for Session 12 – Economic Diplomacy and Good Neighborliness under the NDC regime

• Review Lecture Slides: Session 12 – Economic Diplomacy and Good Neighborliness' under the NDC regime

• Visit the Chat Room and discuss the Forum question for Session 12 • Complete the Individual Assignment for Session 12

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Creating Blended Assignment Instructions

Recommended eight (8) elements to include in written assignment instructions distributed to students online: 1. Assignment title (exactly the same as title used in syllabus and other

course documents) 2. Learning objective(s) to which the assignment relates 3. Assignment due date (if receiving electronic submissions, include

time/time zone also) 4. Submission details (electronic submissions only? required file format?

via email? via assignment upload?) 5. Scoring criteria/rubric 6. Level of group participation (individual assignments, group or team

projects, and entire class projects). 7. Mechanical details (number of words/pages, preferred style guide for

citations, number/type of citations, etc.) 8. Any supporting resources necessary for assignment completion

O’Reilly and Kelly (2008) Slide 11

Reading List

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Course Blueprint – Course Title (Template)

SOURCE: The Course Blueprint is part of the Blended Learning Toolkit prepared by University of Central Florida (UCF) and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) with funding from the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). It is provided as an Open Educational Resource under a Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

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GHANA’S FOREIGN POLICY UNDER NDC

Topic One

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The ascendancy of western democratic values including human right resulted in the promulgation of the 1992 Constitution, and the subsequent holding of both Presidential and parliamentary elections. Jerry John Rawlings won the 1992 Presidential elections and became the President of Ghana. Rawlings served two terms as President of Ghana from 1993 -1996 and 1997-2000.

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Sample Questions

• Critically assess the economic diplomacy of the NDC government

• Evaluate the measures taken by the NDC government to establish and deepen friendly relations with other countries, especially with immediate neighbors.

• Discuss the factors that influenced NDC’s relationship with Ghana’s neighbors

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AFRICAN POLICY CON’T

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AFRICAN POLICY

In line with Ghana’s foreign policy to achieve peace and security in the sub-region, Ghana was influential in various peace initiatives on Liberia and Sierra Leone. For example, during the first Liberia war, Ghana was a member of the ECOWAS Standing Mediation Committee (SMC) which brokered the first ECOWAS Peace Plan for Liberia that was signed by the three warring groups at the time. A number of Peace Agreements were negotiated by former President Rawlings who was the ECOWAS Chairman in 1994. These had changing levels of success, not for lack of dedication on the part of the mediators, but primarily because of the inflexibility of the warring factions. However, the process continued until 1997, when Charles Taylor won elections and became President. Rather than seize the opportunity to build peace in the country, Taylor saw his victory as an opportunity to witch-hunt his enemies. In addition to Rawlings’ administration support for peace and security in the West African sub region, Ghana hosted several Liberian refugees and contributed troops to conflict zones in West Africa in safeguarding armistice and harmony. Slide 19

NDC ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY

Topic Two

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CON’T

As has already been pointed out that Ghana’s interaction with the international community has always been influenced largely by two reasons. One ensuring continued international economic support and the continuation of the balanced relations in the international community. The National Democratic Congress administration adopted an aggressive policy with regard to international economic relations. With the collapse of the Eastern bloc the competition for international financial support had become very keen with its concomitant emergence of several independent states in Eastern Europe that hitherto were dependent on the former USSR. To this effect the NDC administration created the Trade and Investment Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This was followed by the establishment of investment promotion wings at some of the foreign missions of the country such as United Kingdom, United States of America, Singapore, Japan, South Africa and Malaysia. Such a policy called for an aggressive investment drive, which explained the many visits made to Europe, United States of America and South East Asia by President Rawlings with the main objective being the enhancement of trade ties between Ghana and the countries visited.

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Topic Four

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References

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