America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo

AvJustin Podur

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This book examines US interventions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda -- two countries whose post-independence histories are inseparable. and America’s pre-emption of the Africa-wide movement for multiparty democracy in Rwanda and Zaire in the 1990s by supporting Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-31
Mått:148 x 210 x 29 mm
Vikt:612 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:404
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030446987

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Justin Podur is an Associate Professor at York University, Canada.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction: I am not an Africanist.- Chapter 2. The politician’s words against the empire’s weapons.- Chapter 3. Sow doubt, aestheticize, essentialize: How to write about African leaders.- Chapter 4. Killing hope in the Congo.- Chapter 5. The agency’s kingmaker.- Chapter 6. The revolutionary and the white supremacist.- Chapter 7. The tyrant subcontractors: America’s chosen African dictators, 1965-1985.- Chapter 8. Economic poison: Western economic medicine before the Rwanda genocide and Congo wars of the 1990s.- Chapter 9. The peacekeeper and the warlord .- Chapter 10. Good and evil: How Africanists present Hutus as deserving of death.- Chapter 11. The infrastructure of judgment and denial.- Chapter 12. The state Kagame built.- Chapter 13. Stories from the African Mind.- Chapter 14. The front men and the refugees: The Congo War 1996-7.- Chapter 15. The nuance to protect an empire.- Chapter 16. The warlord’s aide and the broken alliance: The 1998-2003 CongoWar.- Chapter 17. Conclusion: The empire’s system for Central Africa.