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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: René LemarchandPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780812220902ISBN 10: 0812220900 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 19 November 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface PART I. THE REGIONAL CONTEXT Chapter 1. The Geopolitics of the Great Lakes Region Chapter 2. The Road to Hell PART II. RWANDA AND BURUNDI: THE GENOCIDAL TWINS Comparative Perspectives Chapter 3. Ethnicity as Myth Chapter 4. Genocide in the Great Lakes: Which Genocide? Whose Genocide? Rwanda Chapter 5. The Rationality of Genocide Chapter 6. Hate Crimes Chapter 7. The Politics of Memory Chapter 8. Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered Burundi Chapter 9. Burundi 1972: A Forgotten Genocide Chapter 10. Burundi at the Crossroads Chapter 11. Burundi's Endangered Transition PART III. THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: FROM FAILED STATE TO FRAGILE TRANSITION Chapter 12. A Blocked Transition: Zaire in 1993 Chapter 13. Ethnic Violence, Public Policies, and Social Capital in North Kivu Chapter 14. The DRC: From Failure to Potential Reconstruction Chapter 15. The Tunnel at the End of the Light Chapter 16. From Kabila to Kabila: What Else Is New? Notes IndexReviewsRene Lemarchand ranks among the top Africanist political scientists of his generation, unmatched in his depth of knowledge about the African Great Lakes. He brings to The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa a broad comparative perspective as well as decades of close observation of the political evolution of the Great Lakes region. -M. Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin, Madison Rene Lemarchand ranks among the top Africanist political scientists of his generation, unmatched in his depth of knowledge about the African Great Lakes. He brings to The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa a broad comparative perspective as well as decades of close observation of the political evolution of the Great Lakes region. * M. Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin, Madison * ""René Lemarchand ranks among the top Africanist political scientists of his generation, unmatched in his depth of knowledge about the African Great Lakes. He brings to The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa a broad comparative perspective as well as decades of close observation of the political evolution of the Great Lakes region.""—M. Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin, Madison Author InformationRene Lemarchand is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Florida. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |