Cognitive Existentialism and the Global Politics of State Survival
The Nigeria/Cameroun Bakassi Conflict
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2308342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sylvanus Idahota Ebohon (University of Benin) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 186-198 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021909614543223 |
| OpenAlex | W2313793649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper attempts to situate Nigeria's capitulation to Cameroun in the Bakassi boundary conflict between the two nations within the context and logic of global politics driven by global states such as the United States of America, Great Britain, France and Germany. It makes a case for why and how a sub-regional war was averted within the Gulf of Guinea. The paper argued that although the crisis was a sub-regional inter-state boundary dispute which threatened to escalate into a sub-regional war within the Gulf of Guinea, it acquired a global stature within the context of the operational security architecture of AFRICOM that seeks to globalize security in the incipient second wave of neo-global governance. The crisis provided ample opportunity for the operationalization of the new geography of power in global politics, founded and driven by the mirror image of 'cognitive existentialism'. The paper concludes that Obasanjo's lowering of the Nigerian flag in Bakassi in the context of the new security architecture was fuelled more by the fears of an escalated anti-federal militant upsurge in the Niger Delta; the official records showing Bakassi as an oil axis; America's incorporation of Bakassi into the Gulf of Guinea; the painful remembrance of the ugly Nigerian civil war experience; and America's refusal to supply Nigeria arms in the event of a war with Cameroun, than by a global environment characterized by the low politics of environmental recreation, humanitarian intervention and the politics of human rights
Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human security · Humanitarian crisis · Militant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · State (computer science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Global Political and Social Dynamics · Law
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |