The Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region in Africa: The Pitfalls of Enforced Democracy and Globalization

✍ Scribed by Stefaan Marysse, Filip Reyntjens (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Rwanda, Ten Years on: From Genocide to Dictatorship....Pages 15-47
Disconnecting the Threads: Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered....Pages 48-70
The Evolution and Characteristics of Poverty and Inequality in Rwanda....Pages 71-100
Consociational Democracy for Rwanda?....Pages 101-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Regress, War and Fragile Recovery: The Case of the DRCongo....Pages 125-151
The Mining Sector in Congo: The Victim or the Orphan of Globalization?....Pages 152-189
Kivu and Ituri in the Congo War: The Roots and Nature of a Linkage....Pages 190-222
War and the Political Economy of Kinshasa....Pages 223-243

✦ Subjects

African Politics; Development Economics; Regional/Spatial Science; Political Economy; Democracy; Globalization

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