ABSTRACT

We argue that the United Nations Trusteeship System after World War II, in its attempts to release states into independence, was simultaneously complicit in perpetuating secessionist conflicts, with which former trust territories continue to struggle until today. Secessionism was framed as a threat to state-building and not as an expression of self-determination. We use a Critical Security Studies framework and compare the conflict on Ewe/Togoland unification in bordering regions of the British Gold Cost and the Trusteeship Territories of Togoland (1950s), with the conflict on secessionism of Bougainville from the Territory of Papua and New Guinea (1970s).

摘要

我们认为，二战后的联合国托管制度在试图让各国独立的过程中，同时也是使分裂主义冲突长期存在的同谋，前托管领土一直在与这些冲突进行斗争，直到今天。分离主义被认为是对国家建设的威胁，而不是自决的表达。我们使用关键安全研究框架，比较英国黄金成本和多哥托管领土（1950 年代）边境地区的母羊/多哥兰统一冲突与巴布亚和新几内亚领土的布干维尔分离主义冲突（ 1970 年代）。