Nigeria, Dec. 13 -- "As several of my colleagues in the region remind me, we are the hegemon, whether we admit it or not. And global politics works almost like physics, with polarity, ordering principles, distribution of power, balancing, etc. Nigeria has never had expansionist tendencies, never been threatening towards our neighbours, and always chosen the path of peace and conciliation." - Yusuf Tuggar

When in January this year, Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, wrote an article titled, "Foreign policy and the path to peace in a dangerous neighbourhood," I doubt that he foresaw that his work would eventually turn out to be a seminal one, given the series of occurrences that have taken place since then in Nigeria's ne...