Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda

Elusive Control before the Genocide

AvMarie-Eve Desrosiers

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Challenging assumptions regarding the strength and control of authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society. Through careful, detailed analysis Desrosiers offers a nuanced assessment of the functions and evolution of authoritarianism over time, demonstrating how the governments of Rwanda's first two post-independence Republics (1962–1990) sought and often struggled to cement their rule. Whilst the deeper, lived realities of authoritarianism are generally neglected by multi-cases comparisons at the heart of comparative authoritarian studies, this illuminating survey highlights the essential, yet subtle authoritarian strategies, patterns, and forms of decay that are too often overlooked when addressing authoritarian contexts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-09-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:545 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:African Studies
Antal sidor:406
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009224772

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Politiska ideologier och rörelser inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Marie-Eve Desrosiers is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada. She holds the International Francophonie Research Chair on political aspirations and movements in Francophone Africa. She specialises in governance and security issues in the African Great Lakes and Francophone Africa.

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'Desrosiers' thoughtful analysis of a rich array of archival materials and original interviews offers readers an unparalleled 'granular' account of Rwanda's First and Second Republics. The result is an essential text that promises to have a transformative impact on current understandings of these often-oversimplified regimes and studies of authoritarianism.' Erin Jessee, University of Glasgow

Innehållsförteckning

Trajectories of authoritarianism: An introduction; 1. The study of authoritarianism, including in Rwanda; 2. Should Rwanda matter to the study of authoritarianism?; 3. Some background: Timelines, beginnings and endings; 4. The shape of authoritarianism in pre-genocide Rwanda; 5. Communicating norms for behaviour; 6. Challenges to the monopoly of legitimate violence; 7. Competition around and within the security sanctum; 8. The political and economic grind; 9. Individual and local trajectories; Conclusion; Bibliography.