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“erik kennes”

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  • The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa

    by Erik Kennes, Miles Larmer ...
    A history of the 1960s unrecognized state's army and their role in Central Africa's political and military conflicts.Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today's Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Africa's World War : Congo, The Rwandan Genocide, And The Making Of A Continental Catastrophe

    by Gerard Prunier ...
    The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The War That Doesn't Say Its Name

    The Unending Conflict in the Congo

    by Jason K. Stearns ...
    Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international interventionWell into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a “forever war”—a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Doesn’t Say Its Name ... Read more

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  • The Order of Genocide

    Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

    by Scott Straus ...
    Winner of the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science (AAP)The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so rapidly engulf the nation? Why did ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • European Integration

    A Political History

    by Mark Gilbert ...
    Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set in the wider history of the post-war period. Gilbert concludes by considering the Union’s future in light of the mood of crisis that has taken hold in the EU in the ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa

    From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction

    by Robin Philpot ...
    The book comprises three parts. The first part addresses the little-discussed but crucial events preceding the assassination of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared, "The Rwandan genocide was 100% American Responsibility." Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared, "The Rwandan genocide was 100% American Responsibility." ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Congo from Leopold to Kabila

    A People's History

    by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja ...
    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

    by Rene Lemarchand ...
    Series series National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
    Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation—most infamously under Belgium's Leopold II—were followed by decades of civil warfare that spilled into neighboring ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Congo Wars

    Conflict, Myth and Reality

    by Doctor Thomas Turner ...
    Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent times.In The Congo Wars Thomas Turner provides the first in-depth analysis of what happened. The book describes a resource-rich region, suffering from ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • The Democratic Republic of Congo

    Between Hope and Despair

    by Michael Deibert ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Over the past two decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been at the centre of the deadliest series of conflicts since the Second World War, and now hosts the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world. In this compelling book, acclaimed journalist Michael Deibert paints a picture of a nation in flux, inching towards peace but at the same time solidifying into another era of ... Read more

    $26.29 CAD

  • Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda

    by Filip Reyntjens ...
    Filip Reyntjens's book analyzes political governance in post-genocide Rwanda and focuses on the rise of the authoritarian Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the RPF has employed various means - rigged elections, elimination of opposition parties and civil society, legislation outlawing dissenting opinions, and terrorism - to consolidate power and ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • The Future of Europe

    Towards a Two-Speed EU?

    by Jean-Claude Piris ...
    The European Union is in crisis. Public unease with the project, Euro problems and dysfunctional institutions give rise to the real danger that the European Union will become increasing irrelevant just as its member states face more and more challenges of a globalised world. Jean-Claude Piris, a leading figure in the conception and drafting of the EU's legal structures, tackles the issues head on ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD