Postcolonial embarrassment at the United Nations
Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict in the UN–Arria Formula Meeting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8911700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Ketzmerick (0000-0002-6996-732X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cooperation and Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-8367 • E-ISSN: 1460-3691 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00108367251326049 |
| OpenAlex | W4409591579 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 88 |
This article offers a nuanced understanding of the internationalized efforts to end violence in the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon during the 2019 Arria Formula Meeting. Since 2017, the conflict between Anglophone separatists and the Cameroonian central state has led to a deteriorating security situation. This article argues the meeting presents a critical shift in the international reactions to the violence in the Anglophone provinces. To explain the dynamic interactions in the meeting, this article focuses on the strategic use of face-saving practices and “postcolonial embarrassment” to understand the space for actors to maneuver in the Global South. Using an interpretivist actor-centered form of process tracing, this article delves into the interactions during the informal meeting to give a nuanced understanding of the patterns, logics, and mechanisms that led to a changed international stance toward the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon. In doing so, this article reflects on the negotiations of interventions, the political space in global power configurations within the Arria Formula Meetings, and the temporalities of postcolonial conflicts
Economic history · Embarrassment · Political science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Global Political and Social Dynamics · History · International Development and Aid · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Exit Strategies and State Building
A Post-Liberal Peace
The Closure of the International System
Liberal Peace Transitions
Informal Governance in the European Union
Informal governance in international organizations
The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis
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Peace Operations in the Francophone World
Refugee exchanges between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, and their socio-economic relevance, from the First World War to immediate post-independence
Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics
Security in Cameroon
Bananas, Beaches and Bases
Models of conflict, negotiation and third party intervention
Trapped in the global? A look at the contemporary evolution of migration policies in Cameroon
Critical Security History
Informal human rights law-making
Why Nations Fight
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Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish
Broadening the Study of Peace Operations
A Catharsis for Anxieties”
The Rise of China’s Developmental Peace
The ‘Responsibility to Protect’ and the Structural Problems of Preventive Humanitarian Intervention
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Rising Powers and Normative Resistance
Terminating intervention
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Colonial ties and civil conflict intervention
Goffman meets IR
International/Global Political Sociology
Dissenting at the United Nations
The power of interpersonal relationships
The imperial legacy of international peacebuilding
Complex political emergencies and the state
The Chinese approach to peacebuilding
Insurgency and national security
The Russian approach to peacekeeping
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The long march through the institutions
We don’t do that’
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Diplomatic practices at the United Nations
Practice theory and the study of diplomacy
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Forgotten Conflicts
Equality, Non-Interference, and Sovereignty
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Conditions of Successful Third-Party Intervention in Intrastate Conflicts
Third-party Interventions and the Duration of Intrastate Conflicts
Believing This and Alieving That
The Force of Face-to-Face Diplomacy
Stigma Management in International Relations
Third World Perspectives on Humanitarian Intervention and International Administration
The Synthetic Situation in Diplomacy
We will not Swallow This Bitter Fruit
Emotions and the communication of intentions in face-to-face diplomacy
Power in practice
Peacemaking in an authoritaraian context in Africa
Cameroon and Its Foreign Relations
The “Anglophone crisis
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Track-Change Diplomacy
Saving face in diplomacy
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The Anglophone crisis in Cameroon
Civil society, peacebuilding from below and shrinking civic space
Utopie et dystopie ambazoniennes
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From 'Anglophone Problem' to 'Anglophone Conflict' in Cameroon
Performing Diplomatic Decorum
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |