Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996, when the war started, to 2006, when elections formally ended the political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A unique combination of circumstances explain the unravelling of the conflicts: the collapsed Zairian/Congolese state; the continuation of the Rwandan civil war across borders; the shifting alliances in the region; the politics of identity in Rwanda, Burundi and eastern DRC; the ineptitude of the international community; and the emergence of privatised and criminalised public spaces and economies. This book seeks to provide an in-depth analysis of concurrent developments in Zaire/DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda in African and international contexts. By adopting a non-chronological approach, it attempts to show the dynamics of the inter-relationships between these realms and offers a toolkit for understanding the past and future of Central Africa.

Great Lakes Region [Africa] --- Civil war --- Guerre civile --- Congo (République démocratique) --- 853 Regionale conflicten --- 881.2 Centraal-Afrika --- Civil wars --- Intra-state war --- Rebellions --- Revolutions --- Congo (République démocratique) --- Internal politics --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- anno 1990-1999 --- Congo --- Government, Resistance to --- International law --- War --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Relations extérieures --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Civil war - Great Lakes Region (Africa) --- Congo (Democratic Republic) - Politics and government - 1997 --- -Congo (Democratic Republic) - Foreign relations - 1997 --- -Civil war --- Conflits de basse intensité --- Grands lacs africains (région) --- 1990-.... --- 1997-.... --- Relations extérieures