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Affiliation Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

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Mailing Address University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne Member of Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains, CEMAF Paris 5 villa Hortensia La Varenne Saint-Hilaire, Saint-Maur Paris France

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Countries of Specialization Cameroon

Education 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." 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." 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". 2004: Master's Thesis in English Modern Letters (specialty, Sociolinguistics), topic: "Verbal and Non-Verbal Aspects of Phatic Communion in Cameroon".

Research Interests 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.

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Publications * August 2007: A policy paper titled "Building the AIDS diplomacy: The case for an HIV/AIDS coordination unit in the Ministry of External Relations". 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). "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.

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