The Non-Aligned Movement, Ghana and the Early Days of African Diplomacy: Reflections on a Developing Country’s Foreign Policy

Thomas Prehi Botchway, Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah
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: This paper is an attempt at reviewing Ghana’s foreign policy as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). It examines the key tenets of the NAM and juxtaposes it with Ghana’s foreign policy directions from the early days of Nkrumah till recent times when virtually all African states have taken sides with one world power or the other. It is about the reflections of what the NAM stands for and how its members have been conducting foreign policy, and the successes and failures in the developing world, and the lessons that can be learnt from its existence in the last six decades. We use Ghana as a case for trying to understand the NAM and the conduct of foreign policy. We realise that though the NAM members such as Ghana still believe in the core principles that underpin the Movement, the country’s foreign policy orientation has not always been one of the total non-alignment. Instead, exigencies in the contemporary international system as well as leadership idiosyncrasy and other related matters by and large influence Ghana’s foreign policy.
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不结盟运动、加纳与非洲外交的早期:对一个发展中国家外交政策的思考
本文试图回顾加纳作为不结盟运动(不结盟运动)成员的外交政策。它考察了不结盟运动的关键原则,并将其与加纳的外交政策方向并置,从早期的恩克鲁玛(Nkrumah)到最近几乎所有非洲国家都站在一个世界大国或另一个世界大国一边。它反映了不结盟运动代表着什么,它的成员国是如何执行外交政策的,它在发展中世界的成功与失败,以及它在过去60年的存在中可以汲取的教训。我们以加纳为例,试图理解不结盟运动和外交政策的行为。我们认识到,尽管像加纳这样的不结盟运动成员仍然相信支撑该运动的核心原则,但该国的外交政策取向并不总是完全不结盟。相反,当代国际体系中的紧急情况以及领导特质和其他相关问题在很大程度上影响了加纳的外交政策。
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