Contemporary Governance & Global Politics

This project reflects many intellectual influences and therefore, my debt is to all my colleagues at Sakarya University, University of West Bohemia, and University of The Gambia. I am indebted to Assist. Prof. Dr. Yasin Kerem Gümü¿ and Assoc. Prof. Özer Köseölu of Sakarya University. I am grateful to Dr. Martina Poní¿ilová of University of West Bohemia for her assistance during my stay in Czech Republic. I have been the beneficiary of numerous suggestions for the improvement of this work. I am particularly grateful to Ebrima Camara, Salifu Manneh, Bai Jammeh, Isatou Jeng, Ebrima Nyass and Muhammed Lamin Darboe. Special thanks to Lamin M. Senghore and William Bwando for their unwavering moral support. Finally, I am highly indebted to my parents (Binta and Sainey Bojang) for their moral and financial support throughout my academic life.