Ibrahim Ndzesop (Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris)

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Ibrahim Ndzesop
University of Paris 1
Pantheon Sorbonne
Member of Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains, CEMAF
Paris

Mail address:
5 villa Hortensia
La Varenne Saint-Hilaire, Saint-Maur
Paris
France

phone:     +33 659146840
fax:       +33 1-46-71-84-94
e-mail:   ibndzesop@gmail.com



Activities

A diplomat with Cameroon's Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Sociolinguistics 
and International Relations (foreign policy analysis) in Cameroon
Ph.D. candidate at the University of Paris 1.


Areas of research

Military labor, mercenaries, ethnogenesis, political economy and 
state-building.

History, evolution and typology of conflicts and conflict management in 
international relations. Presently writing on "Foreign combatants and 
DDRR" and another on "violence by proxy: the use of mercenaries in 
political violence".

Geopolitics of great-power interests in Africa

Global health governance in African history, the HIV/AIDS diplomacy and 
security threats to African countries. 

Since September 2007, Ph.D. candidate in conflict studies. Topic: 
"Mercenaries and state formation, Africa on the eve of partition."

May 2007: Post-graduate degree thesis on "The Place of Cameroon in *U.S. 
Policy toward Central Africa after the events of September 11 2001." It 
argued that the U.S. policy of working with regional hub countries 
attracts regional rivalry within sub-regions and that Central Africa might 
be heading to a 'new Fashoda' of neoimperial clash.

2006: Master's thesis in International Relations (specialty Diplomacy). 
"The Case for a Databank at the Career Management Unit of Cameroon's 
Ministry of External Relations."  Argues that Cameroon's Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs needs to develop a databank that helps to manage personnel 
and enhances a policy of filling Cameroonians in international
organizations.

2005: Master's thesis in international Relations, specialty Diplomacy. 
Topic: "Cameroon's Battle for Posts in International Organizations: the 
Cases of Mrs. Tankeu Elisabeth and Mr. Nkodo Theodore". Argues that a lack 
of strategy and precise policy towards filling positions in International 
Organizations could weaken a state's access to these positions and 
consequently, her diplomacy. 

2004: Master's Thesis in English Modern Letters (specialty, 
Sociolinguistics), topic: "Verbal and Non-Verbal Aspects of Phatic 
Communion in Cameroon". There are two arguments. 1. Languages in 
Cameroonian (Papiakum, Fulfulde, Ewondo, Pidgin English, French and 
English) have specific features of the socializing use of language. 2. The 
effective of use of language in the Cameroonian speech community requires 
a mastery of the important sociolinguistic component called Phatic 
Communion. 

August 2007: A policy paper titled "Building the AIDS diplomacy: The case 
for an HIV/AIDS coordination unit in the Ministry of External Relations". 
It argued that the global health governance that has developed in the 
recent years have left some countries with 'good' foreign policies in 
relation to HIV/AIDs and that in order for Cameroon ( and other African 
countries) not to remain dormant subjects, specific diplomatic options 
ought to be formulated and embodied in HIV/AIDS units in the Ministry of 
Foreign affairs.

December 2007: "African Armies and Warfare, 1750-1914", in World History 
Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio (co-publication with Pr. Richard 
Bradshaw). 

2007: "Cameroon's Children", in World Encyclopedia of Children, CA: 
ABC-Clio, 2007 (co-publication with Pr. Richard Bradshaw). 

Work in process: Mercenaries in African history (co-publication with Pr. 
Richard Bradshaw). 

"South African Reactions to the Expansion of Japanese Exports, 1912-1937: 
The Origin of the 'Honorary White' Status", paper presented at the 
conference: .Afro-Japanese Relations in Historical Perspective 
(Johannesburg : 1st-3rd  November 2007). Co-organized by The Centre for 
Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS, in South
Africa) Osaka University. 

"Mercenaries, Slave Soldiers and State Formation in Pre-colonial Africa." 
forthcoming. Co-author Richard Bradshaw. 

"West African Experience of Irregular force: two centuries of mercenary 
and private security armies", work in progress.