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6 - Cameroon: Gambling With Democracy

  • Tatah Mentan
    Tatah Mentan
     is  Theodore Lentz scholar of Peace and Security Studies  and Professor of Political Science. He has authored many books on burning world issues in areas like political economy of international relations, the predatory wars of corporate globalization and democratization in a...
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Democracy Cameroon despotism

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  • Tatah Mentan

     is Theodore Lentz scholar of Peace and Security Studies and Professor of Political Science. He has authored many books on burning world issues in areas like political economy of international relations, the predatory wars of corporate globalization and democratization in a netarchic world torn and convulsed by corporate capitalist cannibalism and warfarism.

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