The Path to Genocide in Rwanda: Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State

ISBN-13: 9781108798327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 437 str.

Omar Shahabudin (London School of Economics and Political Sc

Opis

Uses unique field data to offer a rigorous explanation of how Rwanda's genocide occurred and why Rwandans participated in it.

Recenzje

'The Path to Genocide in Rwanda holds enormous value for scholars in the intersecting fields of social science and genocide studies. The book offers carefully researched conclusions highly specific to 1994 Rwanda and crucial in distinguishing that particular genocide from others.' Gerise Herndon, African Studies Review

Spis treści

1. What We Do and Do Not Know; 2. An Extraordinary Baseline; 3. Security: War-time Threat; 4. Threat and Opportunity: The Dangers of Freedom; 5. Opportunity II: Death of the Nation's Father; 6. Authority: Rwanda's privatized and powerful state; 7. Why some killed and others did not; 8. Conclusion: Rwanda in Retrospect.