Africa

France

Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

ibndzesop@gmail.com

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

phone: +33 659146840
fax: +33 1-46-71-84-94

Cameroon

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".

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.

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.

mercenaries ; ethnogenesis ; political economy ; conflict ; international relation.