2 - Sécurité et ordre politique au Cameroun : entre dynamiques internes et connexions internationales

Abstract

Security order in Cameroon is hinged upon the relationship between endogenous security dynamics and international connections. These dynamics of the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’ are closely intertwined. On the inside, the process of security is around a dual relationship between a logic of ‘de-securisation’ which entails the deconstruction and the restoration of the security order. Security deconstruction, as a common good, is revealed through the presidential appropriation of public security and a political engineering of insecurity as a mode of government. Also, post September 11th geo-strategical stakes of hegemons in the Gulf of Guinea and the Congo Basin, along with the ‘polemologeneous’ environment which characterizes central Africa, determine the reconstitution of the security system in Cameroon. In
fine, the political order in Cameroon, which is implemented through the security order, is directly linked to the domination and perpetuation of the rule of those in power.