Description
My paper is founded on two assumptions: first, that there is a neglected linkage between ontological (in)security and secessionist conflicts in IR in that theorists of secessionism do not approach secessionist conflicts with the prism of ontological security and, in like manner, ontological security theorists hardly engage the secessionism literature; second, that even when the relationship between ontological (in)security and secessionism is cursorily underlined, it is more often than not centred on interstate conflicts in the Global North―especially, in Europe. My paper for the BISA conference will attempts to this gap in the scholarly literature by reconciling ontological security with secessionism with a case study of the anglophone conflict in Cameroon.
