Straus, Scott

Scott Straus is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is the author of Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa and The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda, both from Cornell. He is coauthor of Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide and Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures. He is coeditor most recently of The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and Its Discontents.