America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Justin Podur.
• Authors: Podur, Justin
• Contents: 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 Congo War.- Chapter 17. Conclusion: The empire's system for Central Africa.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (404 pages)
• Subjects: Political science; Peace; Political Science -- Government -- General; Political Science -- Peace; Politics & government; Peace studies & conflict resolution; Africa--Politics and government; United States--Politics and government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030446994
• Related ISBNs: 9783030446987
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