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Epigraph
«The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is
dying and the new cannot be born»
Gramsci, Antonio: The Prison Notebooks, Lawrence & Wishart,
London, 1971
Dedication
This thesis is dedicated to all those brilliant spirits
that have inspired me to do better: Kundera, Feynman, Imhotep, Manes, Mbembe,
Hume, Bardon, Keohane, Risse, Mundimbe, Tagou and Newton.
Acknowledgments
This thesis is the result of various contributions, which all
deserve recognition. In this regard, I would like to express my deep gratitude
to:
· My thesis supervisor, Professor Celestin
Tagou, who, with rigor, method and respect, introduced me to
scientific writing. He initiated me to rigorous thought throughout the
development of this work and during the many years I have spent under his
guidance at the Protestant University. He has been a guide, mentor and is my
academic father. I am deeply grateful for the interest he has displayed to the
young scholar I am becoming.
· My parents Dr. Yombo Daniel
and Thaaly Angele for the love and multi-dimensional
support they have shown me all my life.
· My siblings Yombo Ingrid and
Yombo Micheline for the endless encouragements and for reading
my thesis more times than anyone else.
· The Rector of PUCA, Professor BOUBA
MBIMA, as well as the staff of the Faculty of Social Sciences and
International Relations for offering us a framework of studies conducive to
healthyacquisition of knowledge: Mr. Dean, Professor Celestin TAGOU;Mr.
Academic Secretary, Reverend Professor Charles ELOM NANGA; Head of Department
of Peace and Development, Dr. William Hermann ARREY, and the Coordinator the
AIPCD Dr. Bertrand Begoumenie.
· My numerous friends and classmates around the world,
from the original Haagse School Vereeniging family in Den Haag to CSI La gaiete
in Yaoundé and finally PUCA.
The merits of this work are yours. I endorse all the shortcomings
alone.
Table of contents
Epigraph.....................................................................................................2
Dedication...................................................................................................3
Table of
contents...........................................................................................4
List of
Tables...............................................................................................9
List of
Acronyms.........................................................................................10
Abstract.....................................................................................................11
Resume......................................................................................................12
General
Introduction....................................................................................13
I-Problem and Importance of
study.....................................................................13
II-Research Objective and
delimitation...............................................................16
III-Literature
Review....................................................................................18
IV-Research
gap..........................................................................................24
V-Research
Questions....................................................................................25
VI-Hypothesis.............................................................................................25
VII-Methodology/ Research
design....................................................................26
VIII-Method: Process
tracing...........................................................................27
FIRST PART: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL
FRAMEWORK..................28
CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORK................................................29
A-Defensive structural
realism.......................................................................30
i-Content of
theory.......................................................................................30
ii-Use of theory in our present
study...................................................................31
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