Bulletin n. 2-3/2013
February 2014
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Mehler Andreas
    Why Federalism Did Not Lead to Secession in Cameroon
    in Ethnopolitics , Volume 13, Issue 1, 2014 ,  2014 ,  48-66
    This study argues that Philip Roeder's ‘segmental-institutions thesis’ does not provide a compelling explanation for the development of a separatist movement among the Anglophone community in West Cameroon. West Cameroon is not a case where the creation of a segment state had brought about secessionist aspirations. Instead, it was the abolishment of federalism that had the long-term effect of fostering secessionism when oil was detected and a political crisis later unfolded in the course of a flawed democratization process. This case suggests that more complicated dynamics are associated with both the institutionalization and abolishment of segment states than is proposed in Roeder's original thesis.
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