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Author:   René Lemarchand
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780812220902

ISBN 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  
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Table of Contents

Preface 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 Index

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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

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

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Rene Lemarchand is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Florida.

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